If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only with pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity.

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

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

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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