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Julia Lorraine Hill , née le 18 février 1974, est une militante écologiste américaine. Elle est principalement connue pour avoir vécu pendant 738 jours à Redwood en Californie en haut d'un séquoia d'environ 1 500 ans, pour empêcher que cet arbre ne soit abattu.

Elle est l'auteure du livre The Legacy of Luna qui retrace cette aventure, Luna étant le nom donné à ce séquoia. Elle est aussi coauteure de One Makes the Difference.

Elle est végétarienne. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. février 1974
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Julia Butterfly Hill: Citations en anglais

“Angels are people who pop into our lives at a need time and then disappear without a track, having helped us through a critical point.”

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Julia Butterfly Hill livre The Legacy of Luna

Source: The Legacy of Luna (2000), Ch. 7

“One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.”

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Julia Butterfly Hill livre The Legacy of Luna

Source: The Legacy of Luna (2000), Ch. 5

“True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.”

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Julia Butterfly Hill livre The Legacy of Luna

Source: The Legacy of Luna (2000), Ch. 8

“Wounds on the external landscape exist in the internal landscape first. We re-create those inner wounds on the outside, on the planet. So being a vegan, practicing yoga, and taking time to exercise and do things that nourish my heart and spirit are all vital parts of my “activism.” Activists have done a great job of caring for the world around us, but we haven’t done a great job of caring for ourselves and each other. … If we’re going to ask people to open up to the pain of the earth, we ought to have systems in place that enable us to relieve each other’s pain.”

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" The Butterfly Effect http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/436/the_butterfly_effect". Interview by Leslee Goodman for The Sun, April 2012, issue 436

“I knew that if I didn't find a way to deal with my anger and hate, they would overwhelm me and I would be swallowed up in the fear, sadness, and frustration. I knew that to hate and strike out was to be a part of the same violence I was trying to stop. And so I prayed.”

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Julia Butterfly Hill livre The Legacy of Luna

Source: The Legacy of Luna (2000), Ch. 5

“Activism is Patriotism.”

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Slogan adopted by her (see also the picture on the right). Quoted in Julia Butterfly Hill: Activism is Patriotism http://www.treehugger.com/culture/julia-butterfly-hill-activism-is-patriotism.html, TreeHugger, December 2004.