The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

True leadership is about serving others, not being served.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Sustainable forestry isn't just about cutting trees, it's about growing civilizations.

We often think of poverty as a lack of money, but it’s also a lack of information and opportunities.