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.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

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.

There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then we will continue our present course, with its devastating consequences on the entire Earth community... We need only listen to what the Earth is telling us... the time has come when we will listen, or we will die.