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

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.

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.

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best musicians in the business.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

When one is being driven to the edge, we either fight back or jump

Do you love life? Then don’t waste time

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.