To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.