I believe that we have it in us to rise to this moment, to end the failed experiment of greed, restore the streams of our creative power, and establi… - Aurora Levins Morales

How can you own something that changes under your hands, that is so fully alive? Ecology undermines ownership.

we need to find ways to live as if what we want to build were already here.

So, what about the stealing of land? What about all the colonized places on Earth? What of indigenous peoples forcibly removed by invaders? The crime here is a deeper and more lasting one than theft, akin in some ways to enslavement. Before land can be stolen, it must become property. The relationships built over time between the land and the human members of its ecosystem must be severed just as ties of family and village and co-humanity were severed so that slavers could enslave. The indigenous peoples of the Americas did not own land in the European sense. They lived with and from the land and counted it as a relative.