A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

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.

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

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.