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.

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.

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.

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

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

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.

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