Quotes by Carl Safina

“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanitys relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things weve learned. They fail to encompass the big take-home message, so far, of a century and a half of biology and ecology: life is- more than anything else- a process; it creates, and depends on, relationships among energy, land, water, air, time and various living things. Its not just about human-to-human interaction; its not just about spiritual interaction. Its about all interaction. Were bound with the rest of life in a network, a network including not just all living things but the energy and nonliving matter that flows through the living, making and keeping all of us alive as we make it alive. We can keep debating ideologies and sending entreaties toward heaven. But unless we embrace the fuller reality were in- and realitys implications- well face big problems.”