Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Every good thing begins with one positive thought.

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

When I see Lionel Messi play soccer, he lets the game come to him. He lets the game unveil itself to him, then like a lion he eats the whole thing.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

In Cree, an oskâpêwis is a servant or a helper, someone who hauls in rocks for sweats, or pipes or medicines. I equate that to leadership. You're a servant or helper of people.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

It's hard to get laughs when you're new.