Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.

The Pretense That Humans Are Superior To Nonhumans Is Entirely Unsupportable. I Have Seen No Compelling Evidence That Humans Are Particularly More "intelligent" Than Any Other Creature. I Have Had Long And Fruitful Relationshis With Many Nonhuman Animals, Both Domesticated And Wild, And Have Reveled In The Bouquet Of Radically Different Intelligences - Different Forms, Not Different "quantities" That They Have Introduced To Me, Each In His Or Her Own Time, In His Or Her Own Way.

I No Longer See Descartes' Statement As Arbitrary. It Is Representative Of Our Culture's Narcissism. This Narcissism Leads To A Disturbing Disrespect For Direct Experience And A Negation Of The Body.

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.

The Task We All Face As Human Beings ... Is To Find And Become Who We Are. The Task Teachers Face Is To Find Their Own Way Of Teaching, One That Manifests Who They Are.

From The Beginning, This Culture - Civilization - Has Been A Culture Of Occupation.