"We have not yet faced up to the magnitude of the trap we have created for ourselves. We are still thinking of the crisis as a set of problems which are, by definition, solvable with technology and money. In fact, we face a series of dilemmas which will be avoided only through wisdom and a higher and more comprehensive level of rationality than we have yet shown. Our crisis is not fundamentally one of technology - it is one of mind, will and spirit. Denial must be met by something like a world-wide ecological perestroika predicated on the admission of failure- the failure of our economics, which became disconnected from life: the failure of our politics, which lost sight of the moral roots of our common wealth: the failure of our science, which lost sight of the essential wholeness of things: and the failure of all of us as moral beings, who allowed these things to happen because we did not love deeply enough and intelligently enough."
-David W. Orr
