I Thought A Forest Was Made Up

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

If Your Homeland Were Invaded By Aliens Who Cut Down The Forests, Poisoned The Water And Air And Contaminated The Food Supply, Would You Resist?

Many Indians Have Told Me That The Most Basic Difference Between Western And Indigenous Ways Of Being Is That Westerners View The World As Dead, And Not As Filled With Speaking, Thinking, Feeling Subjects As Worthy And Valuable As Themselves.

I Am Only So Beautiful As The Character Of My Relationships, Only So Rich As I Enrich Those Around Me, Only So Alive As I Enliven Those I Greet.

Like The Layers Of An Onion, Under The First Lie Is Another, And Under That Another, And They All Make You Cry.