From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.

The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

If you are established in the church and focused on Jesus, then you are still among the living

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

There is no rewind button for life.

God can dream a better dream for you than you can!

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.