I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel

Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses It's a power that overcomes every obstacle

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.