I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.

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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.

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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

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In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

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The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

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The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

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