“The hardest thing to do on this planet is not capturing carbon or ridding ourselves of cruelty and war. It seems that the hardest thing to do is to embrace our common cosmogony, our common origin story.”

“If the average family size has been shrinking since the 1960’s, then why does the US keep growing? How did we add the equivalent of Russia’s population to our 50 states in just 55 years?”

“When too many people come to paradise it ceases being a paradise.”

“The more people there are, the more each individual voice is drowned in an ocean of noise. This weight, though intangible is deeply felt.”

“We need to take a hard look in the exponential mirror. Bartlett was right. This is our greatest failing.”

“We should be building resilience instead of housing especially in vulnerable areas.”

“We collectively keep agreeing with the misdiagnosis that we are fine with continued growth in a limited world.”

“We need to offer them more peaceful answers to their problems.”

“Protected wild and beautiful areas do much to preserve the integrity of beauty, watersheds and wildlife. But how protected are they with continued population growth?”

“People are fighting all kinds of land development projects, such as housing complexes, highways, pipelines, mines, airports, and energy facilities.”