"By a capitalist’s definition, if you consume what you produce, you don’t consume."

Cheap is the opposite of a bargain—cheapening is a set of strategies to control a wider web of life.

"We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands."

In order to live, I must consume.

Ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects."