We Batter This Planet As If We

We Smoked The Way Other American Families Would Have Wine With Dinner. For Us, It Was Our Sacrament. It Was Something That Made A Great Life Sweeter In Every Possible Way.

I Believe That We Are A Story-driven Species And That We Understand How Things Are Put Together, In The Context Of Narrative. It's A Shame That Science Hasn't Been Taught That Way, In A Long Time. It's Usually The Fact Completely Devoid Of Any Human Experience Or Any Idea Of How The Scientist Came To That Conclusion.

Interviewer: "didn't [sagan] Want To Believe?" Druyan: "he Didn't Want To Believe. He Wanted To Know.

I Guess I So Desperately Want To See Us Put This Planet Right. It's So Horrifying To Me That A Fifth Of Us Are Starving Every Night, And That Forty Thousand Children Die Every Single Day.

For Most Of The History Of Our Species We Were Helpless To Understand How Nature Works. We Took Every Storm, Drought, Illness And Comet Personally. We Created Myths And Spirits In An Attempt To Explain The Patterns Of Nature.