We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

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.

Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression

I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

No one makes a revolution by himself.

After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.