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 ….

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 ….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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 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….

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?.

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

We must learn how to think like the planet..

To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civili….

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet..

You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to som….

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….

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 ….

Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally….

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

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….

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

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….