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

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.

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.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

... Desire baffles knowledge and power.

Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.