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.

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

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.

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.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It's very simple.