Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

Dealing with our negative emotions is a crucial preparatory step to taking effective action. You have to grapple with the hard stuff, with the hard realities of the world. This builds your confidence that you can handle those intense situations when they arise.

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But when we're not afraid to confront the hard emotions - when we don't turn away from the pain and the suffering of the world - it builds the confidence that we can do whatever we need to do.

I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.