We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.