Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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.

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.

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

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.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us.