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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Lorraine Hill is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She is best known for having lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in the tree, affectionately known as Luna, to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down. She is the author of the 2000 book The Legacy of Luna and co-author of One Makes the Difference.

American - Activist | Born: February 18, 1974

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

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

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

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I didn't climb into that tree expecting to become a spokesperson. — © Julia Butterfly Hill

I didn't climb into that tree expecting to become a spokesperson.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I asked God to use me as a vessel, so I guess you have to be careful what you ask for.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

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.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

Even though I didn't realize that I was about to launch into a two-year struggle, a deep and compelling sense told me that I had to walk the path I'd chosen - or rather, the path that seemed to have chosen me.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

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.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I've always felt that as long as I was able, I was supposed to give all I've got to ensure a healthy and loving legacy for those still to come, and especially for those with no voice.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I see how these beautiful forests are now open to destruction because of technology. Companies are able to get into more and more remote places that weren't economically viable before.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

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.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation. — © Julia Butterfly Hill

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I don't really watch movies. I don't own a TV.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

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

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill

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