The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.