I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with our own neighbors, and within our own homes and families.

I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, "This is the first year in twenty that the chinook salmon have not returned." This woman knows the names of things. This woman is committed to a place. And she sounded the alarm.

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

I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.