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.

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.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

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

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

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

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.