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

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

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

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.

Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call the entire civilized world back to a more authentic mode of being.