Insights

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” John Muir

“A little too asbract, a little too wise,/ It is time for us to kiss the Earth again,/ It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,/ And let the rich life run to the roots again.” Robinson Jeffers

“The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level (of consciousness) at which we have created them….We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” Aldo Leopold

“Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive.” Lewis Thomas

“The interconnectedness of the universe in its every manifestation is what establishes the unity of the entire world….Here we find the sublime expression of the deepest mystery of the universe: the revelation of the divine.” Thomas Berry

“Living systems are integrated wholes whose properties cannot be reduced to those of smaller parts.”

“We are at the beginning of a change of worldview as radical as the Copernican Revolution–a shift from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological view, from a value system based on domination to one based on partnership.” Fritjof Capra

“Cultural diversity is as essential to sustainability as is biological diversity.” Winona LaDuke

“It is not enough to just ‘love nature’ or want to ‘be in harmony with Gaia.’ Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place, and it must be grounded in information and experience.” Gary Snyder