A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect.

Everything that is old was once new.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .