Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.
Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.
The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. . . Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here.
Just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do what you do. The stuff I listen to in my private collection, it's what moves me, makes me want to play. I want to make other people feel like I feel when I listen to that music. Whether other people like it or criticize it - even if there's only 10 people on the planet that love it, you're touching 10 people that way.
What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
The Moon is such a planet I can't even stand it.
I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
I do have a concern however, humanity has a great way of adapting and I'm sure scientists of the future, probably after I leave this planet, earth will have a new way of dealing with the internet but I do have a concern in the transition period.
Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet there.
What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.
Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.
Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.
Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.
There are 6. 6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?