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

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.

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

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

I love myself totally, completely, and unconditionally.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars.