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.

No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.

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.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.