The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Freedom is not worth it without him.

She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.