A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.

I say God bless you... I don't say bless you... I'm not the Lord. I can't do that...

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

What we live by we die by.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him