"Humans have destroyed more than 30 per cent of the natural world since 1970 with serious depletion of the forest, freshwater and marine systems on which life depends."

- [Guardian, 10/2/98]

 

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

- Thomas Paine

 

"Liberties are not given; they are taken."

- Aldous Huxley

 

"It's never seemed relevant to study people whose only accomplishment was to live on a planet for three million years without devouring it. But as you approach a point of no return in your plunge toward extinction, this study will soon seem very relevant indeed".

- "My Ishmael" By Daniel Quinn Page 123

 

"I would not be confident in everything I say about the argument: but one thing I would fight for to the end, both in word and deed if I were able --- that if we believe we should try to find out what is not known, we would be better and braver and less idle than if we believed that what we do not know is impossible to find out and that we need not even try."

- Socrates (469-399 BC)