Dennis Weaver Quotes

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

If you don’t generate tension in the film to begin with… you can’t really make a purse out of a sow’s ear, you know.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you’re not acting on a series, you don’t get the ability to communicate to people.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they’re interdependent.

But the “wise” person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

It’s not an if – we’re going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.