Civilization can never be sustainable.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

We must learn how to think like the planet.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.

Get into Investment Banking

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

The happy man's without a shirt.

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

The people who should be here aren’t. The ones who should be smiling with me aren’t here.