Elements

Elements

Water — last modified 2007-10-12 15:36

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself." - Rachel Carson

Air — last modified 2007-10-15 13:22

"You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem." -William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator, New York Times, 1988

Land — last modified 2007-10-10 14:48

"As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them." - Louis Bromfield

Recycle — last modified 2007-10-10 14:47

"But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom—a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom—and all of us are involved in it." - Wendell Berry

Energy — last modified 2007-10-10 14:48

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.” - Sir George Porter

Nature/Wildlife — last modified 2007-10-29 15:38

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." - Henry David Thoreau