I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

Books will never die out as long as there are people around.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

I don't have a power nap when I have training. I take it so I am fresh again for the next session.

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.