The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.

We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.