I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.