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.

If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

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

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

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.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.