The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.