Sturgeon Quotes
I've always wanted to blow up dams in order to save salmon, sturgeon, and other creatures whose lives depend on wild and living rivers. But that's not right. We need to blow up dams for the rivers themselves, so they can be again the rivers they once were, forever, the rivers they still want to be, the rivers they themselves are struggling and fighting to once again become.
Derrick Jensen
When I was seventeen I read everything by Robert Heinlein and Arthur Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and Van Vogt - all the people who appeared in Astounding Science Fiction - but my big science-fiction influences are H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. I've found that I'm a lot like Verne - a writer of moral fables, an instructor in the humanities. He believes the human being is in a strange situation in a very strange world, and he believes that we can triumph by behaving morally. His hero Nemo - who in a way is the flip side of Melville's madman, Ahab - goes about the world taking weapons away from people to instruct them toward peace.
Ray Bradbury
