When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.