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

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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

We're all pretty individualistic.

America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!