Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.