Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.