That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

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.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.