"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."

"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."

"Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement."

"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease."

"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."