Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being.

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.

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

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

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.