Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

Good Enough

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Make a u-turn, when you see you have traveled on the wrong path.

Whatever you need… Always.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.