1. “I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet”
2. “Be neither too remote nor too familiar.”
3. “It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.”
4. “If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.”
5. “All the time I feel I must justify my existence.”
6. “To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.”
7. “There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.”
8. “Any difficulty which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.”
9. “The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.”
10. “Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system – the lungs of the planet – and we are on the verge of switching it off.”
11. “Humility is to make right estimate of one’s self. it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that,.”
12. “Conservation must become before recreation.”
13. “It’s always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.”
14. “As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.”
15. “The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!”
16. “All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I’m tired of it. My private life has become an industry.”
17. “The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.”
18. “It’s always nice to have somebody on your side.”
19. “I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.”
20. “We are not the technology. It should be our – you know, our save, the technology. But it’s rapidly becoming our masters in many areas, I think.”
