Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is tak…

- Gilbert F. White

Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simpl…

- Gilbert F. White

It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of …

- Gilbert F. White

The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people from the hydrologic cycle…

- Gilbert F. White

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

- Gilbert F. White

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two…

- Gilbert F. White

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other …

- Gilbert F. White

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national g…

- Gilbert F. White

We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cu…

- Gilbert F. White