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quotes[0]='<B>I\'m not coming down</B> ... There\'s no way I\'m letting this incredible tree fall. I\'m not going to do it. As long as I have the ability to keep this tree standing, I\'m staying up here.<I>--p.86</I>'

quotes[1]='I didn\'t feel any need to play Superwoman, but I knew that I had <B>given my word</B> that I wasn\'t coming down until I had <B>done everything I possibly could</B> to protect this area. To come down because I was afraid of a storm would be to break my word, and I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are only as good as our word. If our actions don\'t meet our words, our value as people is lessened.<I>--p.111</I>'

quotes[2]='At first, the idea of going to the very top of Luna was terrifying. ... Still, I felt a constant calling to go to the top.<BR>Maybe it was the feeling that drives people to hike mountains, that feeling of making it to the highest place possible, that inner urge to find our higher self. Some people think it\'s about an adrenaline rush or conquering, but I think it\'s a constant striving we have inside ourselves. I don\'t like the feeling of conquering. We conquer a mountain because we can climb it, then we conquer a mountain because we can blow it up for tunnels and highways and mineral extraction. We play God and destroy the natural balance.<BR>So for me, <B>climbing to the top was not conquering Luna. I just felt compelled to reach it.</B> Once I learned how to disperse my weight among both hands and feet instead of placing it all on a single branch, I thought, "I can do this!"<BR>...<BR>I made it to her lightning-hardened pinnacle, the most magical spot I\'d ever visited. Luna is the tallest tree on the top of the ridge. Perched above everything and peering down, I felt as if I was standing on nothing at all, even though this massive, solid tree rose underneath me. I held on with my legs and reached my hands into the heavens. My feet could feel the power of the Earth coming through Luna, while my hands felt the power of the sky. It was magical. I felt perfectly balanced. I was one with Creation.<I>--p.123</I>'

quotes[3]='The resulting media interest gave me an expanded purpose and a new life in Luna. When I climbed this ancient redwood tree, I never could have imagined that I was going to have my ear to a cell phone, my hand to a pager, and my other hand on a planner. But tree-sits have three purposes: to protect the tree and hopefully a few around it, to slow down the logging while the people who work within the legal system do their work, and to bring about broad-based public awareness.<BR>...<BR>For months I had paid no penance to the gods of gravity, but now the pager fell one hundred eighty feet and shattered. Truth be told, I relished the few days of reprieve that it brought. ...  I tried my best to <B>keep balanced, but it was difficult.</B> In order to get the message out, I had to keep my technology turned on. Up in Luna, I was living on the world\'s most amazing radio tower, which receives and transmits all the beautiful and powerful truths of our universe, and I had been blessed to be a the microphone on that tower.<I>--p.131-132</I>'

quotes[4]='I did not go up to live in Luna because she sets any size records. I did not stay to set any endurance records. To me, the tree-sit was not about records of any kind. It was not just a "novelty." It wasn\'t even about me. If it had been about any of those things, I would have gone down long before this point. <B>I had put my life in a critical position to try to show people what was really at stake.</B><I>--p.149-50</I>'

quotes[5]='\"<B>Pacific Lumber has not yet promised that Luna will be allowed to stand, and I will stay until they do,</B>\" I told her. \"I do not want to come down to a world where clear-cuts are allowed, where herbicides are dumped on forests and on people, where logging continues on unstable slopes, where old-growth forests are destroyed. Why should I want to come down to a world like that? I still have my work cut out for me up here in Luna. I need to get people rallied to stop these things.\"<I>--p.150 </I>'

quotes[6]='If I had seen what the Luna tree-sit had in store when I first got involved, I would have run screaming in the opposite direction. But, like a stepping-stone or the rung on a ladder, <B>each hardship taught me what I needed to learn</B> so that I could reach the next step and the next and the next. Somehow, they seemed to come in just the right way, giving me the knowledge to handle, or transform, whatever came after. The universe may not always send us what we want, but it always sends us what we need, and sometimes a little bit more to make us stronger.<I>--p.161</I>'

quotes[7]='In August 1998, <I>Good Housekeeping</I> nominated me as one of the most admired women in America. Me--the same person who had been called crazy, wacko, extremist, far left, terrorist, idiot. That proved to me that social consciousness regarding direct action and civil disobedience was beginning to shift. Suddenly, people were beginning to understand that I was not this insane radical. I, as well as all those like me who have <B>opted to put their lives on the line for their beliefs, simply felt compelled to take a stand</B> because of the blatant destruction of the Earth and ourselves.<I>--p.163</I>'

quotes[8]='Winter. In a tree. Again.<I>--p.185</I>' 

quotes[9]='I couldn\'t afford to ever really relax, becasue I couldn\'t afford to make a mistake. And not just on the physical front. I had to be on guard spiritually as well. Carrying so many people\'s hopes for the forest movement was a huge responsibility that I took very seriously. <B>With so many struggles and with so much pressure</B>, it wasn\'t easy to avoid thoughts about rejoining the world. In a poem entitled "Down," I summed up my quandry:<BR><I>If people\'s hopes are placed on me<BR>and I come down<BR>do their hopes come down with me?--p.195</I>'

quotes[10]='<B>It\'s not that we thrive on the constant struggle</B>, but we can\'t accept what they\'ve given us because it\'s not enough. It\'s not enough not because we want it all, but because all that\'s left is so little.<I>--p.207-208</I>'

quotes[11]='I had given my word that my feet wouldn\'t touch the ground until I had done everything I could to save Luna.<I>--p.234</I>'

quotes[12]='I wanted to protect Luna for her sake, for the sake of the hillside, and for the sake of the people in Stafford, whose voices I heard quivering as they described what it was like going to bed at night knowing that the hillside might at any minute give way and bury them in mud. I wanted to protect Luna for the thousands of people across the country and around the world for whom she had become a symbol of hope, a reminder that <B>we can find peaceful, loving ways to solve our conflicts</B> and that we can take care of our needs without destroying those needs to satisfy our greed.<I>--p.234</I>'

quotes[13]='So I will continue to <B>stand for what I believe in</B>, and I will continue to <B>refuse to back down and go away</B>. No person, no business, and no government has the right to destroy the gift of life.  No one has the right to steal from the future in order to make a quick buck today. Enough is enough.<I>--p.237</I>'

quotes[14]='Luna is only one tree. We will save her, but we will lose others.  The more we stand up and demand change, though, the more things will improve. I ask myself sometimes whether the destruction has gone too far, whether we can really do anything to save our forests and our planet. And yet I know that I can\'t give up. We must <B>do the right thing because it is the right thing to do</B> regardless of the outcome. I have to take it one struggle at a time. And just as I\'ve done with Luna, when that struggle comes my way, I\'ve got to fight it for all I\'m worth.<I>--p.238</I>'

quotes[15]='I was raised playing chess, and Charles Hurwitz is one master chess player. He is so good that if he were only in touch with his heart, he could be one of the major forces for good in the world. But, having been matched against him before, I knew his strategies. And I was prepared. He was going to try to move me around like a pawn. But I stayed focused on my goal, which was for me a resolution where all sides could win. This was not a competition between Julia Butterfly and Charles Hurwitz; this was about <B>the whole world winning</B>.<I>--p.241</I>'

quotes[16]='Luna stands for hope and the <B>love that will always win over hate</B>. She reminds us that <B>there are no "sides,"</B> only "us"; that love and hate are within us all. Luna reminds us that the hope for this beautiful, sacred planet that gives us life and thus hope for our humanity lies in our ability to transform the greatest obstacles and challenges into <B>strength, endurance, commitment, and love</B>. These are the essence of Luna.<I>--p.253</I>'

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