It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

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.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

God Almighty is my sacred shelter.

The right thing done at the wrong timewill not bring about the right results.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.