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

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.

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

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

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

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.