democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

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.

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.