It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Garrett HardinThe greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
Garrett HardinWhy 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.
Garrett HardinFundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett HardinThe exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin