We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

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.

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.

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

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you're stronger than you are.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.