Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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

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

We're all pretty individualistic.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

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.'

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