✨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✨
“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 • ♾]
“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.
"you can't stop the love — and the rock'n'roll"
The Craft (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming
Not even a priest who proudly claims to love humanity, who lives for humanity. Do you doubt me?
“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
“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