The Fundamental Task Is To Achieve Smallness

Everything Can Be Seen Directly Except The Eye Through Which We See.

Anything That We Can Destroy, But Are Unable To Make Is, In A Sense, Sacred, And All Our 'explanations' Of It Do Not Explain Anything.

To Describe An Animal As A Physico-chemical System Of Extreme Complexityis No Doubt Perfectly Correct, Except That It Misses Out On The Animalness Of The Animal.

We Still Have To Learn How To Live Peacefully, Not Only With Our Fellow Men But Also With Nature And, Above All, With Those Higher Powers Which Have Made Nature And Have Made Us; For, Assuredly, We Have Not Come About By Accident And Certainly Have Not Made Ourselves

Even Bigger Machines, Entailing Even Bigger Concentrations Of Economic Power And Exerting Ever Greater Violence Against The Environment, Do Not Represent Progress: They Are A Denial Of Wisdom. Wisdom Demands A New Orientation Of Science And Technology Towards The Organic, The Gentle, The Nonviolent, The Elegant And Beautiful.