However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

We see only what we have names for.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

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

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

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.