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

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

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.

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.

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

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