The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.