It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).