We must learn how to think like the planet.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.