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.

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.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

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

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

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.

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