Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

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.

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.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

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.

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 must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.