"The future of life on Earth depends on our willingness to act now."

"The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities."

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with po…"

"It is a appalling that the public is not being told the truth about what is happening to their environment."

"I am not a scientist in the sense that I wear a white coat and work in a laboratory. I am a writer, and my laboratory is the world around me."