What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack -… — Frances Moore Lappé Connectedness 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 Death Copy Share Image
What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food… — Frances Moore Lappé Anna Copy Share Image
Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other. — Frances Moore Lappé Beauty Copy Share Image
The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite. — Frances Moore Lappé Avoiding 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 Capacity Copy Share Image
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy, — Frances Moore Lappé Democracy Copy Share Image
Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships. — Frances Moore Lappé Approach Copy Share Image
I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty. — Frances Moore Lappé Beauty Copy Share Image
We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely. — Frances Moore Lappé Believe Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's… — Frances Moore Lappé Certain Copy Share Image
Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in. — Frances Moore Lappé Aspect Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Anatomy Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are… — Frances Moore Lappé Coward Copy Share Image
There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even… — Frances Moore Lappé Answers Copy Share Image
Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in… — Frances Moore Lappé Accepting Copy Share Image
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained… — Frances Moore Lappé Age Copy Share Image
Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us… — Frances Moore Lappé Can do Copy Share Image
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about. — Frances Moore Lappé Bigs Copy Share Image
You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that… — Frances Moore Lappé Choices 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 Courage 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 Approach Copy Share Image
I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what… — Frances Moore Lappé Diets Copy Share Image