The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment
What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
The supreme morality of art is to endure.