I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

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.

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

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.