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.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

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

There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.