None of us know our real names.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.