We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.