Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

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.

Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.

there are no great things in life, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to Meet.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's]. And if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him, in the name of peace.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.