To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

I actually thought I had a meeting with congressman [Elijah] Cummings and he was all excited. Then he said, I can't move, it might be bad for me politically. I was all set.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.