To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.