We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Is it possible that the reason you feel as if God doesn't see you or your problems or care about your stress is because you are focused on you, instead of God?

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.

I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.