Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts.

Knowledge gives you the upper hand

Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer to human reality.

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.