It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

There are some things in the world we can't change.