In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...