Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.