The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.