If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. – Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959

The word “wilderness” occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. – René Dubos, The Wooing of Earth, 1980

The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. – Lynn I. White, Jr., Science, 10 March 1967

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. – Euripides