"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife."
"The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place"
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Source: Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77, 1978.
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