Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.

Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.