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There is no business on a dead planet
Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
There is more inside you than you dare think.
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.
Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.
Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.
Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
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.
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.
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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.
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
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.
I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?