An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.