America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.
Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences you don't like.
As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
Washington's a cesspool of money.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
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