In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what’s right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn’t always where you want to use it, and it isn’t always when you want to use it.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.

I think California has the best energy.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on… So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It’s an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn’t sustainable.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

It’s obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

It’s not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it’s a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.