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

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.

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.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

It's kinda hard bein humble in the belly of the struggle, Doin things that probably get you in trouble.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.