What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

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.

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.

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

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

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.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.