What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.