Glen Grunau

“I do it for the relationships. I like to spend my time with people who are trying to make the world a fairer, kinder place. I’ve been in groups like this since college, and they have made me happy.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture

“As we go about our troubled and sometimes frenzied lives, in this time of the Great Acceleration, we have close at hand ways we can move out of the time zone of our current century and into a transcendent experience. We can do this by simply recognizing our kinship with another living being, by finding one beautiful thing to enjoy, or by allowing ourselves to be swept away emotionally by the miraculous and intricate world we have all around us.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture

“This pivotal experience taught Mitch that to participate in a democracy, you must show up, meet people, and volunteer. It doesn’t work to wait to be discovered.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture

“when people come together, they can accomplish more than they can by individual actions. With this transformation from “me” to “we,” the wind picks up, the sails fill, and the boat is off. . . Media coverage tends to focus on one person and doesn’t point out that the heroine of a story has the support of a small group behind her.”
― Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture