It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

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.

Be gentle with all people. We all have different struggles.

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like.

My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.

Politics is a contact sport.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.