In Popular Culture
Hill has been the subject of several documentaries, interviews, and books, including her own memoirs, The Legacy of Luna and has influenced numerous musicians. In Penn & Teller's first season of their documentary television show, Bullshit, Hill was interviewed and her motivations were questioned by Penn Jillette and Patrick Moore, a former founder of Greenpeace, both of whom criticized her position on tree cutting for paper as a "stupid waste" by pointing out that medical textbooks and works of art are made of paper, and the irony of her treehouse being made of lumber from cut trees.
A benefit concert was played at the Mateel Community Center in Redway, CA during Julia's "tree sit", on December 10, 1998. Artists performing were Bob Weir and Mark Karan as an acoustic duet, the Steve Kimock Band and the Mickey Hart Band. Julia took part in the event, reading her poem "Luna" via telephone while the Mickey Hart Band was performing "The Dancing Sorcerer".
Hill was the subject of the 2000 documentary film Butterfly, and she is featured in the documentary film Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance, both chronicling her time in the redwood tree.
The 12th season episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger" of The Simpsons was conceived when writer Matt Selman heard a news story about Hill.
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