From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery.

You cannot have well people on a sick planet.

The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

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.

The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.