I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.