"I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it."

Source: “Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”. Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.