Ian Somerhalder Quotes - Page 4

I've got a lot of letters from prison. Lost was a big prison show. But it's really crazy when you get the letter that says, 'So, I'm getting out in three months, I've only been in for 17 years and I'd really like to meet you.'

The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy?

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

Ideas need collective thought.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.

If you want change, it has to be generational.

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

If you love someone when you're 20 and you carry that love with you until you're 90, it's not going to be the same dynamic.

Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?