“My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartla...” — Julia Butterfly Hill Quote

“My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church.”

“Since I became accidentally famous, it did give me access and, through that access, power that I couldn't just walk away from.”

“We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.”

“I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.”

“I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.”

“I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own.”

“A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.”

“The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.”

“I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.”

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”

“My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.”

“People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.”