The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Everything is connected to everything else.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

what were you thinking?

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

Common sense is strengthened by joy.

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.