"I confess to persistent envy while reading The Life Inside about the urgency that philosophical questions have in West’s classrooms. "

"In possession of a historical consciousness that has never before been so excruciatingly heightened, we are bowed beneath its weight."

"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."

"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."

"We cannot adequately understand contemporary politics through the paradigm of static states and stationary citizens."

"Humanity is an errant species; perhaps this is why it is a planetary species, dreaming of becoming interplanetary."

"The strange weather that we’ve been hearing about is now here, speaking in a new political forum that humans have yet to join seriously."

"The idea that all humans should have rights is good, but the idea that only humans should have rights is bad."

"We don’t know not because we can’t know but because we don’t want to know."

"The incommensurability between 'authentic' political thought and ecological concerns can no longer be defended."

"It is no coincidence that sacrifice zones fall on Indigenous land and on places inhabited by majority Black populations."

"Contrary to widespread thinking, it is farm animals rather than those left to fend for themselves in the wild that have the better lives."