Frances Moore Lappé Quotes

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• What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

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• Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Law, Break, Ifs

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of agriculture. We know so much more about the life of soil now and we understand how plants synergistically work together with microbes and animals to create healthy conditions.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Animal, Agriculture, Healthy

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Health, Science

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Choices, World, Want

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• 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

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Frances Moore Lappé : Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, May, Might

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Heart, Meat

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Action, Evidence

  Frances Moore Lappé (2007). “Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want”, p.317, BookBaby

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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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Motivational, World, Want

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• I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dream, Organization, Long

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Oil, Car, Meat

  "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

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• Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Democracy, Scarcity, Hunger

  "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.

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• The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Real, Causes, Needs

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• The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Good Life, Opposites, Life Is

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Intelligent, Choices, Capacity

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• The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Views, Negativity, World

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Health, Mean, Order

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• Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of living is to find expressions appropriate to our own uniqueness in which we can experience effectiveness.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Art, Effectiveness, Expression

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Fear Of Death

  O Magazine Interview, May 2004.

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• My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Confusion, Challenges, Rewards

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Scarcity, Limits, Vulnerable

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Victim, Evolve, Passive

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Roots, Who We Are, Deny

  "O Magazine", May 2004.

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