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.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.