Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

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.

To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.

If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.