Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.
We can love ourselves by loving the earth.
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.
You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
The purpose of life is to live it.
Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.