“Julian Gresser is among the most widely thoughtful people of his generation. How the leopard changed its spots is as deep as it is wide in topical scope. His journey to save us from species self-destruction has been a life truly worth living. This a great book impossible to put down. Every page is filled with wisdom and spiritual energy.” Stephen G. Post, PhD, Director of Medical Humanities, Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University
“This magisterial book made me “stop-look-go”. It promotes desirable ingenuity, rather than innovation. It weaves together wiser, overlapping futures. Gresser is a world expert in the “hard” humanities. The hard humanities are an attempt to redefine and focus the humanities to apply knowledge to solve social problems in a complex system of 8 billion humans. Gresser applies Einstein’s dictum to solve our problems in other ways than we used to create them. He has changed my thinking, favorably, often, in the half century I have known him.” Roger Malina, PhD, Professor of Art and Technology, Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Houston; Executive Director Emeritus, Leonardo
“Thank you again Julian for the gift of your book – your valedictory address to your life, and to life itself. The ‘evolutionary values’ you explore and articulate so masterfully, is a kind of Dharma of its own accord. It’s also—I sense—a love poem to your wise teachers of all faiths, the opportunities that have befallen and engaged you and to your beloved Angela (all part of your Sangha!). Those of us—your family heritage and friends- can only count the leopard spots, even as they continuously change.” Randall Weingarten, MD Adjunct Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medical School
I can say that the book is a highly interesting portrayal of the development and changing foci of one of the most formidable intellects that I have encountered and that the emphasis on love of mankind, nature, the universe is the only recipe that can save us in the end. Peter L. Murray, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University
“Your beautiful and fascinating book arrived last weekend. It is so beautifully written, thoughtful and inspiring, and we’re taking our time to digest and fully appreciate the wisdom and peacefulness which pervades the book.” Doug Wood, Founder and Director Americans for Responsible Technology.
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