Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

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 have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.