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

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

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

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

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

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

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.