Everything is connected to everything else.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.