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? – Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985
Nearness to nature…keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt, and in touch with the unseen powers. – Ohiyesa [Charles Alexander Eastman] (1858-1939), Native American (Santee Sioux)
The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must...
Mankind’s irrational destruction of nature bothers me a lot. Mankind is slowly committing suicide, or not so slowly. Each day it accelerates, producing all kinds of wastes—corporal, industrial, atomic—poisoning the earth, the sea and the air. He destroys the very...
