“We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief...”

“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”

“...primarily the individual is going to study at home.”

“I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.”

“We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.”

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wi...”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its ...”

“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.”

“It is a hot summer day in Tennessee in the midst of the sixth decade of this century. The girl has climbed the fence to get to the swimming hole she has visited so many summers of her life in the t...”

“The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.”

“If you play smart, you may achieve your target without using up all your resources.”

“There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.”

“$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.”