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.

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.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

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

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.