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.

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.