“ 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
“ 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… Wallace Stegner
“ 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
“ Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of land preserved in their original state. If ask… Galen Cranz
