Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Discover your sacred soul.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

Decadence is wonderful.

Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.