Manifesto for the Earth Quotes

“An essential prerequisite for the reforms to which I gave the name of perestroika was glasnost or transparency, which gave people the possibility but also the right to speak the truth. How could reforms be put in train if one did not tell the truth about the actual situation, if people could not hear the truth about the past?”
― Mikhail Gorbachev, Manifesto for the Earth: Action Now for Peace, Global Justice, and a Sustainable Future

“At difficult times in my life Nature has always offered me refuge. For me it is not 'environment' or a 'place of leisure and relaxation' but a temple in which I experience feelings that are almost religious.”
― Mikhail Gorbachev, Manifesto for the Earth: Action Now for Peace, Global Justice, and a Sustainable Future