Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.