It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

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.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

Everybody know that it was not possible, till somebody was there and did not know this.Iedereen wist dat het niet mogelijk was, tot dat er iemand kwam die dat niet wist

I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Before Jersey Shore, I was a DJ struggling to promote, deejaying six nights a week and hustling to pack clubs.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged