Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 11, 1935
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you h….
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his….
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person..
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive..
Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Noth….
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all..
Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anyw….
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'..
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their ….
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementar….
If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their ch….
The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet-….
Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always ….
Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities..
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture,….
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison i….
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilie….
People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized foreve….
Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this statement is not the issue….
To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something ….
Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because ther….