In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.

Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

It is in getting to know my Bible that I get to know Jesus.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

We may restrict the expression of worship for a season, just as we may briefly hold our breath, but there is an inward craving for worship that cannot be permanently stilled

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.