Seek out the power of our humanity

When speaking to power, we have to step back and look at individuals as human beings. As human beings, we have the power to do the greatest good and the greatest bad, each and every one of us. We look at people like Charles Hurwitz (CEO of Maxxam Inc., the company responsible for clear-cutting forests), and it’s easy to say he’s horrid and he’s bad and he’s evil. But at the same time, it’s our choices that decide the shape of the world. And we can all choose to destroy the planet, or we can choose to save it. We have the power – what are we going to do?… I really believe that the hope for humanity is to find our common ground – to find the humanity that’s within us. To let go of our rhetoric, our stereotypes, our labels, and our computer print-outs, and say: OK, let’s get human. Let’s get real. To let go of our anger and realize, even in this person there is a piece of creation. There is nature in this human, just as there is nature in all of us.