The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.