We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

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

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

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.

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.