With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I don't really watch that much TV. I have training camp to worry about.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.