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.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

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

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.

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

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

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

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.