We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the beach are my favorite moments.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.