“We Are The Last Generation Of Human Beings Who Will Have A Choice Whether Or Not To Save The Earth.

“River Phoenix was often mocked in his day. As the vegan environmentally aware actor who made careful film choices based on his personal politics, he was seen as a little wacko, an eccentric still suffering the psychological effects of growing up in the cult, Children of God. Now he seems ahead of his time. Not only that, an exemplary figure to be revered more than ever, both for his film work and his messages. […] He remains an inspiration for those of us looking for a new masculinity. This wasn’t a man set out to compromise what was in his heart and mind to fulfil any expectations of what a young man must be” — “River Phoenix remains the antidote to Toxic Masculinity”, The Book of Man, Oct 2018

✨it's not about career, it's about believing in something. it's about prosperity and it's about caring and emphasizing and wanting to create the best and the most true to real life✨

PET PEEVES: War, cruelty, materialism

BELIEFS: Being good to other people, working for world peace, not eating meat

— Excerpt from a teen magazine, 1987

“He grew up as a naive little kid saying, ‘I want to save the world’. As he got older he started to realize that it was impossible to do. Nobody can. A lot of people go nuts because they feel the pain and they want to do something about it and they can’t. I think River felt that very intensely”

— Josh Greenbaum

Due to personal reasons, I will now be regressing back to 2014 me, so if you see me watching old Markiplier videos or listening to Badlands and Crybaby then just look the other way

“River made a difference each day of his life. I hope his death will move others to work for a healthier, more compassionate world, so that young people will not feel drawn to numb themselves against a culture too cruel to endure, but will, instead, be able to live with joy and peace and love.” — Zoe Weil [The Animals Agenda, 1994]

Dear River, Will love you forever and a day. 💫

[•23rd August, 1970 — 31st October, 1993 • ♾]

“Although I can’t stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.”

— River Phoenix

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

não fui criada em águas rasas, e sempre dei mergulhos profundos

mas vou passar a noite velejando no azul esverdeado de teus venustos olhos

pedindo aos céus que desta vez eu não me afogue

— tentativas