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

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.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed.

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.