No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.