To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is 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.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

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.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible