We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.

Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.