Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.