People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care