Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.