Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

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.

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent