I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

There is no business on a dead planet

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.