I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability..

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents..

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off..

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever….

I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - '….

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I h….

. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball….

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 withou….

Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the plan….

Your greatest achievement is to love me..

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the te….

The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, fo….

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought..

We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren..

Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge….

I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her ….

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority..

While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in t….

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..

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them..

Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineer….