If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

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

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.