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

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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