Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.

It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.