People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.

If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!

Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.