There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.