Albert Einstein was asked one day by a friend "Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?" "Yes, it would be possible," he replied, "but it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning--as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation in wave pressure."

Gaia is as indifferent to our fate as the stars. In the long run, the biosphere survives but its species do not. . . Virtually all of the species that have ever lived on this planet are now extinct. At times. . . half of the species on the planet have gone extinct almost at once. The next one hundred years may be such a time again. The story of life is punctuated by ice ages, volcanic winters, meteoric collisions, mass dyings. And at the moment it is punctuated by us.

... it is not Christ who is crucified now; it is the tree itself, and on the bitter gallows of human greed and stupidity. Only suicidal morons, in a world already choking to death, would destroy the best natural air-conditioner creation affords. . .

The emerging viruses are surfacing from ecologically damaged parts of the Earth. Many of them come from the tattered edges of tropical rain forest or tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people. The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet . . . [Including] viruses, since all living things carry viruses. In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the . . . flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the planet. . .

. . . as an animal [a person] must breathe, eat, excrete, sleep, maintain adequate health, and procreate. These basic needs constitute the minimum biological conditions which must be satisfied by any human group if its members are to survive. These physiological or biogenic needs and their functioning interrelations constitute the innate nature of man.

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They . . . have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, their dreams.

Millions of years of ancestral experience are stored up in the instinctive reactions of organic matter, and in the functions of the body there is incorporated a living knowledge, almost universal in scope. . .

For if our body is the matter upon which our consciousness applies itself, it is coextensive with our consciousness. It includes everything that we perceive; it extends unto the stars.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet--at least everybody who seems concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

We live in two interpenetrating worlds. The first is the living world, which has been forged in an evolutionary crucible over a period of four billion years. The second is the world of roads and cities, farms and artifacts, that people have been designing for themselves over the last millennia. The condition that threatens both worlds--unsustainability--results from a lack of integration between them.

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.

The natural world is subject as well as object. The natural world is the maternal source of our being as Earthlings and life-giving nourishment of our physical, emotional, aesthetic, moral and religious existence. The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

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