They should not be called ‘insecticides’, but ‘biocides’. - Rachel Carson

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

Beauty — and all the values that derive from beauty — are not measured and evaluated in terms of the dollar.

We have acquired technical skills on a scale undreamed of even a generation ago. We can do dramatic things and we can do them quickly; by the time damaging side effects are apparent it is often too late, or impossible, to reverse our actions.