We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at the moment, companies are the ones that have this technology - will not use this technology in a way that could adversely affect the people.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.