My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.