“ It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow’s fall Wallace Stegner
“ I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment. Steven Magee
“ It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is… John Stuart Mill
“ Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities. William Cronon
“ In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe. Tim Palmer
“ We must experience Heaven on earth;May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more. Tim Palmer
“ In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an expe… Annette Kolodny
“ The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its way of thinking is incompatible with the round river. Ecological harmony is a no… Donald Worster
“ We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand… Donald Worster
