You know you are you and not the air you breathe or the food you eat. But you are also enmeshed with both and couldn’t be yourself without them being within you and outside of you.

In a post-Copernican worldview, science embraces meaning to reorient our collective future.

Apeiron, the abstract primal substance that gives rise to all that exists, including the heavens and the worlds in them.

The MINDFUL approach to consumerism:

What is naive and innocent is to continue believing that things can remain as they are and all will be well, or that there is nothing we can do, or that science alone will save us.

The MORE approach to engagement with the natural world: Whenever possible, individuals should engage more with Nature.

Apeiron, the Greek word meaning indefinite or boundless.

the piece of real estate we happen to own doesn’t belong to us; we are borrowing it temporarily from the planet.

about one trillion planets in our galaxy, some thirty billion (or 3 percent) have a mass and radius similar to those of Earth. Of those, a smaller but substantial number (about one billion) orbit G-type stars like the Sun. That’s promising but hardly enough. When the focus is on finding life, having a mass and radius like Earth’s is a long shot