Occupation: Environmentalist Birth: July 1, 1912 Death: November 5, 2000
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations..
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of ex….
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place..
Without wilderness, the world's a cage..
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible.
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to ….
Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow..
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we..
There is no business on a dead planet.
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth..
We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children..
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..
If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and….
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground..
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it..
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river..
Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself..
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever..
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music..
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is..