The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.