All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses