The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.