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.

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.

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

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.