With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.