The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.