The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings

The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

He studied her lips like they were a riddle he desperately needed to solve.

My heart is filled with gladness.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Don't say I'm not talented. If you haven't noticed, I wasn't made. I was found.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

I'm a terrible trumpet player...

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.