To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.