We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.