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

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

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

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.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane

In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and soul & knows the worth of what she has to offer.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?