Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

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.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

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

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.