"Are we to stand by while the people of the world are fed into a biological meat grinder? When we poison the air, the water, and the soil, we are poisoning ourselves."

"I am not advocating for a return to the Stone Age, but for a more responsible approach to our use of technology."

"It is a silent spring that I fear, a spring without birdsong."

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with po…"

"The more we understand the intricate web of life, the more we will appreciate its fragility."