There is no one right way to live.

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.