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Six billion of you wake up every morning and start devouring the world.

No story is devoid of meaning, if you know how to look for it. This is as true of nursery rhymes and daydreams as it is of novels and epic poems.

Of course, there is no one right way for people to live, any more than there is one right way for birds to build nests or for spiders to spin webs.

Of course it’s not enough. But if you begin anywhere else, there’s no hope at all.

If the will is there, the method will be found.

Mankind was not needed to bring order to the world.

All paths lie together like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle’s or the mouse’s. All are held together.

The premise of the Taker story is the world belongs to man.... The premise of the Leaver story is man belongs to the world.

Any culture will become an obscenity when blown up into a universal world culture to which all must belong.

The world was not made for any one species.

I asked, “Is it so easy to change a cultural vision.”

“The relevant measures are not ease and difficulty. The relevant measures are readiness and unreadiness. If the time isn’t right for a new idea, no power on earth can make it catch on, but if the time is right, it will sweep the world like wildfire.

You don’t have to understand what you see but you must at least make an effort to see what you see.