If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

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 remember what I must do, even if it makes me the villain of my own story

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

Think before thou speakest.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.