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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

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.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.