Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. (p. 81)

I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all …

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Once you get over the fallacy of the convenience of modern-day life, living more ethically becomes a liberating antidote to the live-to-work consumer culture.