Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Clear, unscalable, aheadRise the Mountains of Instead, From whose cold, cascading streamsNone may drink except in dreams.

Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quite a long period now! You too can fly!

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

She meant it as a compliment.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.