For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.