Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man..

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..

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….

There is no one right way to live..

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,….

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….

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….

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….

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….

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities..

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..

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 ….

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 premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'..

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….

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….

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive..

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-….

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 ….