The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Everything is connected to everything else.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on his skinny hip.

Everyone has limitations. Know that when you always say “I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

We have really no absent friends.

I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.