Pastoral Resources

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.