Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

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

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

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

Everything is connected to everything else.