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

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.

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 want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

I think the hardest part of being a working mom is that I miss my kids a lot.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.