Before Sunrise (1995) // Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

“He was a teen idol with a message. He signed his name with a peace symbol”

“If I didn’t think I could be a part of a movement that could influence, and be a part of helping and change, if I couldn’t help that through what I’m doing, I wouldn’t do this. But I’m seeing that through this position -in this career, and where I have these magazine interviews- I can be an example, and I think that’s important. In all the interviews I do, I say something about being vegan. I don’t want to come off as if I’m a savior. I’m only a very small part of anything, but I think it’s important to be involved. I’m interested in meditation and finding spiritual fulfillment. But for me to just go off and devote my life to monkhood in the jungle would be ultimately abandoning the world, and the consciousness would be on a selfish level. I think I can do a lot more good for this planet if I am out there." 

- River on an interview for Vegetarian Times, March 1988.

the only thing you need to know about the world:

"you can't stop the love — and the rock'n'roll"

“We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.”

—

Joaquin Phoenix

River lived to protect ALL creatures.

“He knows his mind and speaks it, even if what he says doesn’t fit in with his peers. You could call River the ultimate individualist. A vegan in the day of McDonalds, a pacifist in the era of nuclear weapons” — Teen Beat, 1988

@keuhkopussirotta / fleabag / jamie anderson / holly warburton / richard siken / mitski / aracelis girmay by @heavensghost / philip pullman

KEANU: I really would like to do Shakespeare with River. I think we’d have a hoot. We could do A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet

RIVER: I’ll be Juliet

— Interview Magazine, November 1991

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow. ❤️🌎 Joaquin Phoenix and Farm Sanctuary rescuing a baby cow and its mother from  a slaughterhouse.

Not even a priest who proudly claims to love humanity, who lives for humanity. Do you doubt me?

creative writing’s just like yeah sure i can deal with my issues i just need to cover them in several layers of metaphors first