Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.