If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.