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.

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.

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.

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

If you keep seeing events and others through your existing lens you would miss out on the new possibility. Sometimes, reality!!!

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.