A language Older Than Words

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

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

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

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

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.