Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.