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

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

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

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.