Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. – Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. – Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. – Author Unknown