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.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

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.

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

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.