If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.
Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.
I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.
The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.
I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.
I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!
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