Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.