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.

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

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.