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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

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“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value.” — Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, twenty-sixth President of the United States)

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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. — Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? — Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985

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Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. — Henrik Tikkanen (1924 – 1984)

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