"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."

"I have no patience with those who say that it is too late to do anything. It is never too late to try."

"Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is i…"

"The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind—that, and anger at the heedless and needless destruction of that beauty."

"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'"