Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2. 5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.
The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.
Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.
I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.