The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

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

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth