The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.

Money cannot buy the moments of grace.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

Discord gives a relish for concord.