All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move.

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

I always thought I was going to be a dancer and then fashion kind of took over.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.