If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share
![“What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.” quote by Frances Moore Lappé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/frances-moore-lapp-4271_courage_what-gave-her-diane-wilson-the-courage-i_2089948.jpg)
