Quotes from Julia Butterfly Hill

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

Even though I didn't realize that I was about to launch into a two-year struggle, a deep and compelling sense told me that I had to walk the path I'd chosen - or rather, the path that seemed to have chosen me.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

All life is created in love, and thus in the depths of every human being lies a good heart. Some have lost their path from this love, so it up to us to show them the way.

when you see someone in a tree trying to protect it , you know that every level of our society have failed , the consumers have failed , the companies have failed , the government has failed .

If you're the only person left, as long as your hope is committed in action, then hope is alive in the world.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

The question is not "Can you make a difference?" You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of a difference you want to make, during your life on this planet. (Taken from Black and Buddhist, thinking critically and teaching differently in the primary grades by Mary Cowhey)

Similarly, only once we let go of all we know, including all our self-centered concerns, and break free of the cocoons we spin around ourselves to shut out the world can we become the truly beautiful beings we are meant to be.

It was going against what I'd been learning here in Luna, that all living things have the right to be alive.

That's why activists go in and try to slow down the logging. They want some trees to be left standing by the time the regulatory agencies show up or the courts give a ruling.

Love in any language, Straight from the heart, Pulls us all together, Never apart.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church.

I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own.

I didn't climb into that tree expecting to become a spokesperson.

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.