40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
Business must be the solution, not the problem.
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
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.
Feeding people needs to be done, but they need the work. God only knows where they're going to find it now in this country.
Finally I said, We're going to build our house out of tires.
I didn't wake up one morning and some light came on and I changed. It's been an evolutionary process.
I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.
I knew while we were working together that Spielberg was going to make some significant films. Had I known what his future was going to be, I might have adopted him.
I've been walking around this earth for a good number of years and have witnessed some very troubling changes.
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.
If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.
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.
In 1961, Kennedy said, I'm going to put a man on the moon and bring him safely back to earth before this decade is over. We had the will to do it, and we did it.
It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.
It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.
It's our job to show others how to get the goodies out of life without destroying it.
Just imagine for a minute that we have established hydrogen as the energy source to fuel our economy. Hydrogen is inexhaustible. It's everywhere, the most plentiful element in the planet, and it's clean.
Our economy has always been stimulated by new technology, innovation, new ways of doing things.
Our oil supply has been going down, and our dependence on foreign oil has been going up. We now import 60 percent of our oil, which leaves us in a very vulnerable and dangerous place.
Our rural areas are so depressed because the young people are trying to go to the city to find work.
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Spielberg was 23 years old. The studio and I were set to do the film. They called me to see if I minded using a young guy they had under contract they thought was a comer.
The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
The most important reason we need to change is that it would promote peace on this earth.
The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
The place we used for the pilot was a thoroughbred horse farm. The owners sold that out from under us. There's going to be about 40 condos on that ground now. That's a shame.
The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
The ultimate solution is to shift mass consciousness away from hate, greed and fear towards peace, love, cooperation and justice.
There's 3,000 tires and 300,000 cans. We had kids collecting them. We would pay them for their cans to help them get uniforms for their sports or music program or whatever.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
We can show others how to create benign technology.
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
We need the same kind of commitment from business people, from scientists and from the government.
We reached the peak productivity of oil in the United States in the early '70s.
We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.
We will create a resource assessment of what can be turned into businesses that can create jobs and at the same time honor and preserve our environment.
We're like one big feeding machine. The oil barons are the chefs and they know it. They put whatever price they want on the menu and we pay the piper.
We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.
We're trying to revitalize rural economies.
We've got our heads stuck in the sand. We're living in denial.
Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.
When I grew up, 25 percent of the population was out of work. That was during the Great Depression, in the '30s. I went all through that.
When I moved to Colorado, we arranged for all of the small feeding organizations like food pantries, churches, to go to the market themselves and pick up the food.
When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
When we went from the horse and buggy to the automobile, the automobile industry created a tremendous amount of new jobs we couldn't even foresee.
Wildfire is my ninth series. I didn't want something where I was carrying the show. I wouldn't do it at my age.
He stood six feet, 2 inches tall.
Mr. Weaver served as a pilot in the Naval Air Corps.
Mr. Weaver was a finalist in the decathlon in the Unites States Olympic Trials in 1948.
Mr. Weaver won an Emmy in 1959 for his portrayal of 'Chester' in Gunsmoke.
He had three sons: Rick, Rob, and Rusty, and two daughters-in-law: Judith and Madison.
Dennis' death left only three surviving Gunsmoke cast members--series star James Arness, Buck Taylor (Newly), and Roger Ewing (Thad).
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