We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Cherish sunsets wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

Where nature is concerned familiarity breeds love and knowledge not contempt.

Plans to protect air and water wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.