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

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."