by Julia Butterfly Hill | Apr 13, 2022 | Quotes
It is through the doing that we become. I can sit up here and talk to you all day – and I love interacting with you all – but your greatest teacher lies within your heart. Your greatest teacher lies in your spirit. Your greatest teacher lies deep within yourself. Your...
by Julia Butterfly Hill | Apr 6, 2022 | Quotes
The loss of nature is the loss of the sacred. The loss of the sacred is the loss of our soul. In our search for economic value, we need to place value on our soul – because our soul is our connection to nature, to that Creation source. When we see a loss of the...
by Julia Butterfly Hill | Mar 23, 2022 | Quotes
Some people have called me a tree-hugger, a nature lover. But I think people have forgotten just how much nature feeds us. For too long, enough of us in the city haven’t tried hugging a tree lately. I encourage people in the city, if they have to, to go and hug...
by Julia Butterfly Hill | Mar 16, 2022 | poems, posts
When people negatively attack each other, if somebody takes that negative energy and feeds upon it and throws that back out as negative energy, it just becomes this vicious cycle where we keep focusing on the other person and attacking each other. But when all you do...
by Julia Butterfly Hill | Mar 9, 2022 | posts
It started with the loggers. Then with the security men. They taunted me. And at times, they were very vicious. But I kept remembering the unconditional love I felt in the tree, the unconditional love from the earth. And in those times when they were being especially...
