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I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.