"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."

"It is a truism that in this world of ours, just as in the world of the ancient Greeks, whom we have taught ourselves to admire, there is a certain fatalism."

"We are poisoning the earth and all that dwells upon it, and we are doing it in the name of progress."

"I am not a scientist in the sense that I wear a white coat and work in a laboratory. I am a writer, and my laboratory is the world around me."

"Our heedless and destructive uses of the earth's resources are a form of self-destruction."