Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.
Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.
There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.
I go around the world dealing with running and hiding. . . I can't take a walk in the park. I can't go to the store. . . I have to hide in the room. You feel like you're in prison.
I can spend a lot of time on the internet as a substitute for TV. This is part of the reason why I'm not a good girlfriend - you can't sit down with me and watch a movie. I hate being strapped down to stay with something.
I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values.