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.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

The mind creates those things that exist.

John Cobb is saying that perhaps we are beginning to see that now as our greed goes completely out of control and everything is seen through money, through corporate power, etc., etc. We know it well. He asked the question, What will be the holocaust that takes us to the next era? - which he describes as "Earthism."

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.

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.

I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference.