Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.