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

When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.

I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital