Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

We must learn how to think like the planet.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

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

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.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.