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

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

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.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

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

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

I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.