"The balance of nature is not a static thing; it is a dynamic, complex, and constantly changing relation among living things and their nonliving environment."

"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials."

"The most alarming aspect of the story is that the effects of these poisons are cumulative and largely irreversible."

"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway o…"

"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."