Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.