I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.

Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.