We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

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.

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.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.