Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.
The striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the peoples themselves but to differences in their environments.
Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed.
If you want to think about why humans are so dangerous to other species, you can picture a posse of small-brained but big-handed hominians arriving on some new shore.
