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Relationships are the core message of ecology.

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Pendleton
Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
Ecology
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There are surprising turning points there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
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much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
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Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.
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A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
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The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.
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Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
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Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
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We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
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We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop' I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.
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Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
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We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
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On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.
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Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.
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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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