In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
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.
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
. . . bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently.