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Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
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What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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When we say we have hit the limits, we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.
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Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.
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With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
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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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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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We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
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What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.
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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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Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.
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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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For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
Frances Moore Lappé
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
Frances Moore Lappé
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
Frances Moore Lappé
Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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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 cowards.
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