I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

We have become a force of nature.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.