"The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts."

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

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with po…"

"I am not a scientist in the sense that I wear a white coat and work in a laboratory. I am a writer, and my laboratory is the world around me."

"We need to re-establish our connection with the natural world. It is essential for our well-being."