Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

The only compensation for land is land.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

The world should have balance between evil and good, positive and negative. If one is missed there isn't balance.

Sometimes the people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Zachary Roerig who plays Matt, he's just a character.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.