~ The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ~
~ Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. ~
~ The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. ~
~ A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. ~
~ The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. In a war such as this, then, what is victory and how will we recognize it? ~
~ We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive. ~
~ We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change. ~
~ I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~
~ We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. ~
~ The human race will be the cancer of the planet. ~
~ The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. ~
~ When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~