“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
- Alan Watts
Love
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."
- Byron Pulsifer
Environment
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
- Alan Watts
Environment
"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."
Environment
"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."
Environment
"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan
Environment