Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice WalkerBut if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
Alice WalkerHonestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
Alice WalkerNow 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."
Alice Walker