To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
If something’s going wrong with this planet we’d better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.
You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.
Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth’s music.
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
I was actually telling people that – by harnessing the atom – we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that’s plutonium.
We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen – to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
Perhaps we’ll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
When people say, ‘You’re not being realistic,’ they’re just trying to tag some thoughts that they can’t otherwise handle.
Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we’re drastically cutting our energy consumption, we’re actually raising our standard of living.
What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.