Relationships are the core message of ecology.

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.