鈥淚nternet space in our country has become the wall of a public toilet.鈥�
Hong Joon-pyo of South Korea鈥檚 governing Grand National party, during a government crackdown on cyberspace slander and bullying (The New York Times, 12 October)
鈥淩ainforests [are] like a giant global utility right now, like a water utility or a power station, that鈥檚 providing a service we鈥檙e not paying for.鈥�
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Global Canopy Programme director Andrew Mitchell, supporting a proposed multibillion-pound fund to pay the owners of the world鈥檚 rainforests not to cut them down (The Guardian, London, 14 October)
鈥淚 feel I have let everybody down. I have done so much, yet still done wrong.鈥�
Zhao Yuanhua, marketing chief of Mengniu, one of the three Chinese companies who apologised this week on state television for selling melamine-contaminated milk (Reuters, 13 October)
鈥淭his will eventually become just another way of communicating.鈥�
Mike D鈥橺mura, lead researcher on a telepathy project funded by the US army to create technology to allow soldiers to convey messages by thought (msnbc.msn.com, 13 October)
鈥淜eeping energy efficiency as an optional tool will not lead us towards the much needed 30 per cent greenhouse gas emission reduction by 2020.鈥�
WWF energy policy officer Mariangiola Fabbri, on the importance of a ruling banning the sale of traditional light bulbs in the European Union by 2010. The ban could cut energy use for domestic lighting by 60 per cent and reduce CO2 emissions by 30 million tonnes a year (Telegraph.co.uk, 10 October)