The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

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

....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.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

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.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.