America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

One planet, one experiment.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.