I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

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

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

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

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

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