“You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“We've tried to live in balance with nature long enough. This time nature went too far. As soon as you and your fiance are safely out of here, I'm calling in an air strike to napalm this whole forest.”

“In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear”

“That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.”

“It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.”