Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
William Irwin ThompsonWhen we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.
William Irwin ThompsonIf a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.
William Irwin ThompsonLike a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
William Irwin Thompson