I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

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.

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.

Alex [Kendrick] and I started out the whole film-making journey as a desire to reach people for Christ and try to impact their lives for him.