Latest Frances Moore Lappé Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Moving, Quality, Needs

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

• Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Agriculture, Roles, Debt

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

• Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Men, Credit, Farming

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

• With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mother, Forever, Intimate

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

• Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Growing, Changed, Approach

• 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.

• I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Democracy, Scarcity, Realization

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

• Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Humans, Fellows, Human Beings

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

• Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Financial, Circumstances

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

• I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Luxury

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

• Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Connected

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

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Impact, Steps, Certain

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Social, Models, Creatures

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Organization, Community, Isms

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  People, Risk, Pushing

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Moving, Way, Action

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Littles, Notches

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Camels, Action, Break

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Government, Laughing

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Lying, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Heart, Serving, Knows

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Use, Pessimistic, Term

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Agriculture, Community, Movement

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Daughter, Book, Mean

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• 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.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Pain, Simple, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org