Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

More peoples getting satisfaction in wealth but real wealth is knowledge, knowledge is organized in books and books are available in the libraries.

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

The fans are just as passionate about the projects as we are about making them.

Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.