The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.