History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.