My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change.

I love the interrelatedness of things.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.