Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

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

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.

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

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

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