b'There was a moment when I looked around the tent at Shelburne Farms to see the wonderful old codgers who have been farming in Vermont for generations, sitting with young environmentalists and food entrepreneurs and New York investment types, all nodding in agreement, remarked Brian Byrnes, former president of the Santa Fe Community Foundation. Wow. Talk about being the change we seek. It was a profoundly hopeful moment.For Franz Kafka, the idea of metamorphosis was dark. For Lynn Margulis, the idea of metamorphosis was light. For Eric Carle, author of the childrens book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, whose 224 words have been translated into more than 60 languages and which has been selling 1.8 copies a minute for 35 years, the process by which a caterpillar turns into a butterfly offers the ultimate metaphor of hope, with respect to the possibilities of transformation. When Carl Linnaeus introduced the designation Homo sapiens in 1758, it is doubtful that he gave any thought to the possibilities of a butter-fly-like transformation for man. Why would such a thing be necessary? Homo sapiens stood at the apex of the taxonomic order.13'