“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
Willa Cather book O Pioneers!
Part II, Ch. 8
O Pioneers! (1913)
“I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be.”
On his activism in social justice and peace issues.
2000s, Progressive magazine interview (2003)
Context: I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.
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