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

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

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.

...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

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

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