I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.

Even the brightest stars burn out eventually.

The createst trick the ego has ever pulled of was to convince you that you need it.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.