“ Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. Andy Couturier
“ I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming, as it so often is in organic agriculture, as it is an indication that his farm i… Michael Pollan
“ When a livestock farmer is willing to practice complexity—to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to—he will find he h… Michael Pollan
“ We're experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but what you believe in. We will continue to create an inclusive and sustainable spirit, spreading the word… Akilnathan Logeswaran
“ Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems… Peter Joseph
“ Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The grea… Peter Joseph
“ [...]imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what… Michael Pollan
“ It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illeg… Jonathan Safran Foer
“ Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future. Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
“ Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it? Alex Steffen
“ Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination Janine Benyus
“ I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. Ron Finley
“ The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, drone type innovations to solve real problems that are killing the inhabitants of the planet. Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
“ The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. Albert A. Bartlett
“ We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive. Oren Lyons
“ All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. Victor Hugo
“ Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest.… Peter Singer
