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.

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

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

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?