You cannot have well people on a sick planet.

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

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.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

You cannot have well people on a sick planet.

For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is neither a rational deductive process nor the irrational wandering of the undisciplined mind but the emergence of beauty as mysterious as the blossoming of a field of daisies out of the dark Earth.

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.