For me and my fellow Whiteheadians, the need to keep this kind of thinking alive was intensified by the global environmental crisis. The victory of value-free research disciplines has rendered universities more part of the problem than part of the solution.

We who seek an ecological civilization have a chance. The tide may be turning toward supporting the public interest. Perhaps DEMOCRACY has a future.

There is danger that King’s assassination will achieve its goals more fully than the crucifixion of Jesus attained its goals. This is because the image of King has been defanged even more successfully than that of Jesus.

Instead of modernizing, China should go directly to what we call constructive postmodernism, based on the philosophy of organism, rather than the modernist philosophy of mechanism.

I have been told that many of you in this gathering are farmers. In your hands now lies the destiny of the world. I would like to speak directly to you.

ExxonMobil’s online defense appeals for confidence in its “scientific and engineering mindset.” It’s because of mindsets like this that we need a new worldview.

A world oriented to wealth will never be sustainable.

Professors of ecology were among those who . . . . challenged us to give up our dualistic thinking.

The ecological crisis is a real world crisis, not an abstract one. To improve the world often requires asking questions that are not the property of one academic discipline or another.

Maybe if we get people to look at themselves and their world with Pando as the model rather than the Strasbourg clock, we would develop different ideas of how to relate to each other and to the Earth – different ideas of what is valuable and important.