From Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living, published in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program and the World Wide Fund for Nature (1991):

"Humanity must take no more from nature than nature can replenish." (p8)

"While our survival depends on the use of other species, we need not and should not use them cruelly or wastefully." (p9)

"We have a right to the benefits of nature but these will not be available unless we care for the system that provides them." (p14)

"Renewable resources are the base of all economies: people cannot live without them. They include soil; water; products we harvest from the wild such as timber, nuts, medicinal plants, fish, and the meat and the skins from wild animals; domesticated species raised by agriculture, aquaculture and sivilculture; and ecosystems such as those of the rangelands, forests and waters. If used sustainably, such resources will perpetually renew themselves. But because much present-day fishing, exploitation of forests and use of grazing land are not sustainable, the future of human communities is threatened." (p28)

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