“How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind… I volunteer.”

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

I Love, Therefore I Am

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o’er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven’s gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands.

It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true.

Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better.

How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.

I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.