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"My thesis in all of this is that this Approach is brilliantly designed to deal with (not manage, not optimize, not improve, not solve problems in— just effectively deal with) complex systems and environments. And we are learning that most of the systems and environments that we puny humans try to affect are, in fact, complex ones."

"What the world needs now are Gaia Care-Takers -- People who can make our civilization's final decades times of important learning, each a little better than the last, and as full of love and joy and rediscovery of our connection with all life on Earth as each of us can make it."

"We all agreed that there is not a sufficient spiritual focus for the environmental movement. And without a spiritual focus, a movement like this doesn

"In a culture that considers development to be the continual accretion of matter and waste in a process of abuse, exploitation, and degradation, it was particularly inspiring to have a countervailing notion affirmed: that development can also be a refinement of an inner essence into a nourishing creative force in collaborative service to humanity

"So what if, as a society, we worried less about a booming economy which drains the planet of its resources? If, as the positive psychologists suggest, having more stuff isn’t going to make us happier, shouldn’t we worry more about things like building a culture that emphasizes personal connection and community?"