Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 11, 1935
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-….
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..
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the wo….
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person..
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….
Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities..
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….
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive..
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 ….
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 ….
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….
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….
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,….
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….
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….
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….
We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it..
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….
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 ….
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….
There is no one right way to live..