Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human…

“When you let go of anger, you not only help yourself, but you also contribute to the healing of the world.”

— Shannon Kaiser

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to…

— James Hollis

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new…

— Robert Kennedy

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps…

— Lucy Larcom

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love... Intelligence without…

— Daniel Keyes

The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water,…

— Freeman Patterson

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler

“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider…

— P.W. Atkins

“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we…

— Joseph Guth

Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are…

— David Grinspoon

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to…

— George Monbiot

I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we…

— Jonathan Ott

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on…

— E. O. Wilson

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the…

— E. O. Wilson