To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

What we do to others will come back to us.

Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.

If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.

Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.