In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

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 am living breathing freedom

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

My worst expectations never happened.

When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.

People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.