We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.