I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

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.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

My game is going wrong - the star is setting

Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.