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

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

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

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

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

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

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

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