Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.

I think Barack Obama has been a terrible disappointment environmentally. It's very sobering to realize, as a westerner, that under the Obama administration, we now have more active oil and gas leases on public lands than Americans ever did. Obama has been worse.

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.