The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.

The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.