"Often, in old age, the sisters become each other’s chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and their relationship to each other’s children, they . . . carry the echoes of their mother’s voice."
- Margaret Mead
Love
"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need."
- Margaret Mead
Love
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
Compassion
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have."
- Margaret Mead
Compassion
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead
Self-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
"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."
- 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