Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

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.

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.

A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.

Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.