Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.