We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren’t aware how impossible it is.
I’m always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it’s impossible.
Without wilderness, the world’s a cage.
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That’s what made it work in the first place.
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
There is more inside you than you dare think.