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.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.