"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."

"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."

"You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean."

"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."

"The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"The greatest journey starts when courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."