Occupation: Biologist Birth: May 28, 1917 Death: September 30, 2012
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it..
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we ….
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe..
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.---->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I….
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, t….
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. ….
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment..
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way..
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….
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation..
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented..
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….
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic gro….
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II..
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic devel….
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced..
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of….
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophi….
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effecti….
In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager..
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsi….