I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.