Peter Coyote famous quotes

04-20-2025

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.
-- Peter Coyote

#Nature #Independent #Self
Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.
-- Peter Coyote

#Way #Wildlife #Shrinking
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
-- Peter Coyote

#Kids #Thinking #Today
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
-- Peter Coyote

#Responsibility #Organization #Political
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
-- Peter Coyote

#Thinking #Vanity #People
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
-- Peter Coyote

#Writing #College #San Francisco
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
-- Peter Coyote

#Home #America #Anxiety
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
-- Peter Coyote

#White #House #Pages
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
-- Peter Coyote

#Commitment #Phones #People
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
-- Peter Coyote

#Kind #Prostitution #Currents
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
-- Peter Coyote

#Aggravation #Healthy #Way
Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.
-- Peter Coyote

#Giving Up #Choices #Limits
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
-- Peter Coyote

#Hurt #Feelings #Limits
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
-- Peter Coyote

#Facts #Opinion #Interdependence
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
-- Peter Coyote

#Believe #Artist #Talking
Money is a way of creating scarcity.
-- Peter Coyote

#Creating #Scarcity #Way
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
-- Peter Coyote

#Self #Worship #Enough
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
-- Peter Coyote

#College #Sweaters #Black

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