Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

Actions & statements made on the basis of critical analysis & discernmentare not the same as divisiveness. Know the difference.

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.