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

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

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.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

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.