The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Follow your dreams and use your natural born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

I don't want to hold you hand!

I'm so into momminess.

I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.