Love does not imply pacifism.

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.

He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.