We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.