Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.