The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.