Joel Garreau (born 1948) is an American journalist, scholar, and author.
There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways. . . You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial. . . You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.
The essence of being human is being creative.
The next frontier is our own selves.
It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.
The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.
The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.
In order for the Prevail Scenario to work. . . you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.
The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning.
In 1920 [H. G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.