Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the middle. In that confusing moment of time between my birth and my death.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

There are no stressful jobs, but there are stressful managers

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.