Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.