If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ou….

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country..

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect ….

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture..

Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging….

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that….

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large tha….

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass tra….

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was….

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with….

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be ….

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of li….

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the p….

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of sup….

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the i….

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the enviro….

The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. su….

As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some propone….

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind..

...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all a….

There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh w….