I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.