When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)

We cannot afford to be discouraged from challenging the corporate control of our food system, our genetic commons, our shared resources, or our democracy. The history of social change in our nation shows that the political system can be reformed, even if the road is long and zigzag.

People would rather believe than know.

We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.

I think we're fucked.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.