I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

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 still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.