Jonas SalkThinkers

Aspiration is a combination of our dreams and our reason. Our dreams tell us what to do... our reason tells us how to do it.

Chance is a misnomer and nothing happens quite by chance. Chance is always a question of accretion of information and experience.

Environmentalism is grounded in the simple idea that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

Environmentalism is best grasped by a simple question that we must ask ourselves: "are we being good ancestors?"

Failure is non-existent. There's just giving up too soon.

Hope is, in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

Parenting is the giving of one's children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Pattern recognition is that which allows one to find meaning in whatever one encounters, whereas some people look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance.