Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

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.

Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play 'catch up' is lethal.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home

I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.

Bears need people. People need bears.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.