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

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children. – Paul R. Ehrlich