"Many people believe that we are facing an ecological disaster.
Every day we hear horrific statistics, the process seems unstoppable.
And the destruction recognizes no national frontiers.
I know all this, yet I cannot really comprehend it.
I have the simple thought that my day starts differently if,
in the morning, the sun is shining and I can gaze upon a tree
bursting with strength. It smiles at me and
all at once I feel like smiling back."

Arpad Goncz,
former President of Hungary