QUOTES BY DR CHUA EE KIAM

1. "...living a complicated way of life can be quite simple; whereas living simply is actually quite complicating."

(Borneo's Tropical Eden - Sabah, 2004)

2. "The green solitude of Nature, away from the city strife and madding crowd, is an antidote to the daily pressures and pains of human existence. Nature releases us from the mindless preoccupation with the daily grind. Recreation areas like parks and forest reserves allow us to slough off the artificial skin we have created and to truly feel the sense of belonging with our planet. "

(Borneo's Tropical Eden - Sabah, 2004)

3. “… the next low tide may be different. For the denizens of Chek Jawa may lay buried, smothered by land reclamation and perhaps eons later to surface as fossils of our time. For the many who have set foot on this extraordinary place, Chek Jawa is a paradise found; yet it could have been a paradise lost”.

(Chek Jawa – Discovering Singapore's Biodiversity, 2001)

4. “Pulau Ubin was also a menagerie... But like parks and zoos the world over, it left me with an indelible impression - for many people, the only way to appreciate nature is to imprison nature.”

(Pulau Ubin _ Ours To Treasure, 2000)

5. “..take away the wilderness and the special denizens of Ubin, you take away the tenuous link between people and nature.”

(Pulau Ubin _ Ours To Treasure, 2000 )

6. “We must leave with a legacy of reverence of the natural heritage so that future generations can do likewise. The earth does not belong to us: we belong to this beautiful earth. And it is OURS TO PROTECT."

(Nature in Singapore – Ours To Protect, 1994)

7. "What you do not see does not mean that they are not there but they will not always remain there for you."

8. "But in reality, to balance the conservation of our natural habitats and the development of more areas for economic expansion is a tough balancing act. The search for this balance is weighed heavily on all of us."

(Singapore's Splendour - Life on the Edge, 2007)

9. "What is more imperative are the efforts of governmental agencies and individuals to work towards salvaging the precious little that is left.  The need to protect and to incorporate some of these habitats in the concept planning is important for our future land use. Nature has a right to survive in developed Singapore. "

(Singapore's Splendour - Life on the Edge, 2007)