“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”

“Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not...”

“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.”

“The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.”

“Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.”

“China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.”

“We are born and reborn again and again. We are changing with the waves of time.”

“No one ever changed the world waking up at noon.”

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”

“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.”

“When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'”

“Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“There are things you cant reach. ButYou can reach out to them, and all day long.The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.I look; mornin...”

“My eyes are my greatest sin.”