They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.