Every society has cause to know that the beneficence of the Earth cannot be taken for granted. - Colin Tudge

The crucial notion that the world has not always been the way it is now.

We cannot claim to take the environment seriously until we acknowledge that a million years is a proper unit of political time. That is the general lesson of history.

The agricultural systems of the world are not actually designed to feed people....If the prime concern of the human species was to feed people, then we would do things very differently.