To Believe Christianity Stands In Opposition To

So Many Indigenous People Have Said To Me That The Fundamental Difference Between Western And Indigenous Ways Of Being Is That Even The Most Open-minded Westerners Generally View Listening To The Natural World As A Metaphor, As Opposed To The Way The World Really Is. Trees And Rocks And Rivers Really Do Have Things To Say To Us.

But What, Precisely, Is Hope? At A Talk I Gave Last Spring, Someone Asked Me To Define It. I Turned The Question Back On The Audience, And Here’s The Definition We All Came Up With: Hope Is A Longing For A Future Condition Over Which You Have No Agency; It Means You Are Essentially Powerless.

I Thought A Forest Was Made Up Entirely Of Trees, But Now I Know That The Foundation Lies Below Ground, In The Fungi.

If Any Thing Can Be Predicated As Universally True Of Uncultivated Man, It Is That He Will Not Labour Beyond What Is Absolutely Necessary To Maintain His Existence.

Writing Is Really Very Easy. Tap A Vein And Bleed Onto The Page. Everything Else Is Just Technical.