Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin, carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.

The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?