Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.

What inspires me is my daughter because I want to set a good example for her, as does my wife.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.