For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and… — Toby Robins Copy Share Image
I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
“Scientists will say with conviction - and they are right - that "there are no technical or economic barriers to achieving sustainability."… — Benjamin R. Barber Copy Share Image
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is… — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Who cares about sustainability, being fair, or ethics? 'Screw you, I got mine.' That has been the rallying cry of humanity since… — Dan Marshall Copy Share Image
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York a year and a half ago, I feel like I really was able to access my… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with… — Yanni Copy Share Image
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image