For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

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.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

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

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

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.

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.