Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

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

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

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

[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.

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