So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.

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

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.

Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

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.

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