The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. ….

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic gro….

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced..

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one..

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented ….

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential….

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and soci….

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it..

Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as ru….

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager..

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in productio….

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive mac….

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it..

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions..

No action is without its side effects..

Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything ….

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic developm….

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational..

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'..

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else..

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need..