The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge… — 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
What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need."… — 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
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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