I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

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

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

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

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