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Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

It is not too late to take another path.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast ... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

We all live downstream

Environmentalism has failed.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

We have become a force of nature.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.