What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

As a scientist I cannot say we don't want to hear anything about GMOs, because these are advances in science. But I think its also important, especially when you are dealing with food, to be cautious.

The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they need, that technology needs to be made available and affordable.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

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.