But I was working with such a great group of people. I just felt so safe up there on stage with them. But the first night I was definitely nervous.

Sarah Chalke
Actress

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner
Scientist

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin
Politician

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Barry Commoner
Scientist

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Benjamin Franklin
Politician

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

Barry Commoner
Scientist

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Anita Desai
Novelist

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes
Mathematician

I didn't think; I experimented.

Anthony Burgess
Novelist

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Anthony Burgess
Novelist