There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It….

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on ….

We must learn how to think like the planet..

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

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities a….

All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to b….

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We wil….

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?.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwis….

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned..

I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disc….

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At ….

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to t….

We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on childr….

Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that ….

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..

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….

The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "….

Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and ….

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply e….

A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on h….