“Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.”

“It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.”

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”

“The economy is now consuming the planet’s available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.”

“There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.”

“I was, being human, born alone;I am, being woman, hard beset;I live by squeezing from a stoneThe little nourishment I get.”