"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato

"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery -- not over nature but of ourselves." - Rachel Carson

"We could reduce [global warming pollution] 20% tomorrow with technology that is already available at no cost if we just changed the way we do things." - President William Jefferson Clinton

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty" - Albert Einstein

"When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe" - John Muir

"Thank GOD, they cannot cut down the clouds!" - Henry David Thoreau

"Many people think global warming is too abstract to get worked up over. But, in addition to ecological disruption, the consequences of letting it go unchecked are floods and drought and disease. What could be more tangible than that?" - Dan Lashof