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“Twenty years ago, I began to speak directly about hope and to what impeded it for so many people: “I say all this to you because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say this because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.” I wrote during a surge of neoliberal attacks on indigenous people, nature, small farmers, and labor, during the so-called Global War on Terror”
― Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

“And that’s what we did. After twenty years as a pastor of traditional indoor churches, I walked out the chapel doors and into the sanctuary of the oak trees.”
― Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

“We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own—indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty, and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.” —WANGARI MAATHAI”
― Tao Orion, Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration

“The Great Work is spiritual at the core. Gus Speth, an environmental attorney, ecologist, and climate advocate, has summarized the problem brilliantly: “I used to think that top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. . . . But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.”
― Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred