The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

She started naming the fish. 'Loppy, Troppy, Hoppy, Soppy, Boppy, Floppy, Moppy and Roppy.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.