I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

Spirituality is feeling a oneness with humanity.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

Our future lies on the horizon of our destiny.

Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.'

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.