"Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man." - HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House

"Not one cent for scenery." - JOSEPH G. CANNON, quoted in Tyrant from Illinois by Blair Bolles, made by the congressman in the cou

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life." - RACHEL CARSON, Silent Spring

"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it." - LAWRENCE DURRELL, Justine

"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." - R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

"Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products." - WILLIAM RALPH INGE, in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future." - MARYA MANNES, More in Anger

"Many people live in ugly wastelands, but in the absence of imaginative standards, most of them do not even know it." - C. WRIGHT MILLS, Power, Politics and People

"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources." - RONALD REAGAN, quoted in Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error by Mark Green and Gail MacColl

"The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, letter (1937)

"The emergence of intelligence, I am convinced, tends to unbalance the ecology. In other words, intelligence is the great polluter. It is not until a creature begins to manage its environment that nature is thrown into disorder." - CLIFFORD D. SIMAK, Shakespeare's Planet

"Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand." - Brewer, Charles L. 1990

"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." - Carlin, George

"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Prophesy

"The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass. So we, too, pass silently." - George, Chief Dan

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." - Nash, Ogden