The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you.

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.