Look at a child and realize that their future is in your hands. It's not just those who will be here fifty years from now. The decisions we make in the next ten years will shape the next 10,000 years.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

You should ask where your food is coming from.

Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.

If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.

The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.