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

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

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.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

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

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