The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

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