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

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

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

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?