It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.

To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.