I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

I'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year." - Nana

This is me figuring good behavior is for someone much younger." --Kestrel

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.