“To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.”

“We human beings constitute and reconstitute ourselves through cultural traditions, which we experience as our own development in a historical time that spans the generations. To investigate the lif...”

“The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.”

“Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.”

“Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal...”

“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can e...”

“None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.”

“When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.”