in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.

Her face lay still on the air under his face.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

I thrive most when I have to juggle things.

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.