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"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Proverb, Native American on ecology
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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

Aurelius, Marcus on environment
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"What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?"

Miller, Henry on environment
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"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth."

Carson, Rachel on choice
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"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."

Malthus, Thomas Robert on population

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"The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."

Carson, Rachel on nature
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