We cannot after all vote on the board or rewrite corporate policy from the sidelines. We cannot impose transformation on the institutions. But we can change our relationship to them.

Where does the change come from? To accommodate the possibility for change, the intellect must grow two sizes. But it is also a matter of the heart. There is no potential for a formula of communication. There is no script or vocabulary that will unlock the doors of understanding. Ultimately, the measure of the exchange lies in caring. Not just

The deepening of our understanding of how the vast variables and interactions in the natural world are functioning will inform our actions; it will inform our ethics, our choices, and our epistemological frame. Take out the vast variables and replace them with oneness, and you lose the differences, the information, the aesthetics of interaction,

To see something, which you are sure can only be interpreted one way, being interpreted in another is a phenomenon that all of us need practice in.

I have spent long hours defending the possibility that attempting to solve a problem by going at it directly is only occasionally effective. I usually receive lost looks of bewilderment and a plea for a map, a method, and a technique. But, so often we make more of a mess than we ever imagined possible by seeking direct solutions. The problems we

Words are delicious, but cannot say much. They often lose the water of meaning before it is delivered.

Being wrong and not knowing are assets. These traits are not dismissals of serious study, but instead offer an invitation to the diversity of perspectives within a diversity of contexts… a much wider pool to play in.

The alternative to trust is not doubt, but rigid control.

Biology is history is communication. Anthropology is architecture is agriculture is what some old women have known all their lives.