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

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

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.

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

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

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.