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

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.

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

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

We must learn how to think like the planet.

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

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.