Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want. — Frances Moore Lappé Birthday Copy Share Image
We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future! — Frances Moore Lappé Future Copy Share Image
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. — Frances Moore Lappé Action Copy Share Image
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how… — 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
My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want. — Frances Moore Lappé Goals Copy Share Image
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible. — Frances Moore Lappé Eco Copy Share Image
Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of… — 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 Death 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
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture. — Frances Moore Lappé Culture Copy Share Image
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'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Change 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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are… — Frances Moore Lappé 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 Copy Share Image
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that… — Frances Moore Lappé Agriculture 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… — Frances Moore Lappé Agriculture 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 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… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother.… — Frances Moore Lappé Alive 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
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear. — Frances Moore Lappé Fear Copy Share Image
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking. — Frances Moore Lappé Choice Copy Share Image
I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge. — Frances Moore Lappé Challenges Copy Share Image
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy, — Frances Moore Lappé Democracy Copy Share Image
Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized. — Frances Moore Lappé 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 got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil… — Frances Moore Lappé Automobile 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 Copy Share Image
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Animal 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 Community 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an… — Frances Moore Lappé Absence 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 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 Balance Copy Share Image
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