The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

There is no one right way to live.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

May the forests be with you and with your children.

....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.