You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.

Boy, the things I do for England.

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution