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

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

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.

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

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.