Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

There is no business on a dead planet

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

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.