Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

Sing a Song before you can't Sing some Song ~

There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.