I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

I started out as a Democrat.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.