Food is the place where you begin.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.