The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.