I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

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.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run toward.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

When we get there, don’t go in huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

Feel for others - in your pocket

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

That God, Who dwells in my hand, Knows this secret plan Of the things He will do for the world Using my hand!

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

Who can be patient in extremes?