Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

Redefine the possible.

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.