Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
What a new face courage puts on everything. – Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.
It is never very crowded at the front.
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man – I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
If you’re going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that’s like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.
You can’t just do one of the things, because it won’t be enough to combat the climate change that we’re already starting to experience. It will only get worse.
For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I’m going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I’m all for it.