The Clayoquot Sound is crown land... The Clayoquot Sound does not belong to MacMillan-Bloedel to finish raping and pillaging, to continue destroying the land with clear-cutting which pollutes the salmon streams and causes landslides that kill the shellfish and forest animals.

And, if the government of this province has given over our property in some legal hocus-pocus to these environmental monsters, then they shouldn't have. And they have, in effect, stolen one of the last remaining rainforests in the world from the people of this country and are in the process of shipping it to Japan and the United States and Europe, and a lot of it goes simply for pulp and newsprint and toilet paper, magnificent old trees, hundreds, even thousands of years old, sacrificed for this.

I feel the same refusal to comply that had slowly built up in my heart toward the government of the United States over the wanton brutality of the Vietnam War...

The same hot anger washes over me again, bathing my innards and bitter-spicing my blood because I have witnessed the landslides, more than once now, I have lived with the body of the raped and beaten victim who tries to rise up behind the cove in the dry season but who is beaten back down under the torrents of rain in the winter...

I have seen it, lived with it, and, if this unconscionable destruction of life is legal, then it shouldn't be... I will break the so-called law, which in this case is simply a court injunction, and I will pay the price.";

- excerpt from Clayoquot: The Sound of My Heart