There is no business on a dead planet

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.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Don’t do it. Don’t love me.

If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Shall I call the others back in?" He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.