If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

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

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.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

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