When you control seed, you control food.

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.

You are always left with choice not chance

If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.

The ball is round so that the game can change direction

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.