The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

I only get writer's block about once a day.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.