Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.