I Didn't Want To Become A Professor

Words Can Enhance Experience, But They Can Also Take So Much Away. We See An Insect And At Once We Abstract Certain Characteristics And Classify It - A Fly. And In That Very Cognitive Exercise, Part Of The Wonder Is Gone. Once We Have Labeled The Things Around Us We Do Not Bother To Look At Them So Carefully. Words Are Part Of Our Rational Selves, And To Abandon Them For A While Is To Give Freer Reign To Our Intuitive Selves.

We Learn The Social Norms Of Our Society And Modify Our Behaviour Accordingly.

Without The Heart To Ground It And Open It To Who We Really Can Be As Human Beings, The Brain Is A Very Dangerous Machine. A Machine That Is Saying: We've Got To Have Economic Growth; We've Got To Have Unending Economic Growth, Otherwise Societies Will Collapse. And Yet There Should Be Something Saying: Wait A Minute, This Isn't Going To Work.

It Would Be Absolutely Useless For Any Of Us To Work To Save Wildlife Without Working To Educate The Next Generation Of Conservationists.

Someday We Shall Look Back On This Dark Era Of Agriculture And Shake Our Heads. How Could We Have Ever Believed That It Was A Good Idea To Grow Our Food With Poisons?