It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.