There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Often I’ll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there’s no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the...

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial

Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute...

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we’ve never met and never will.

Gardening and making your own soap and home-birthing your babies are fine, but these are inherently limited actions. If we want to see genuine food safety, if we want to see sustainable products, if we...

I’m not one of those academics that don’t do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.

My goal is to draw a line with some ‘flavor’ to it.

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are....

People ‘over-produce’ pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

We need to attach importance to the sustainability of economic growth. We also need a better use of resources and to protect the environment.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

CEOs should be measured by the value they create into the community, the shareholders and the members of the company.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever….It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human...

..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don’t have enough natural resources,...

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

We don’t think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time,...

Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.