We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.