47 Quotes by Gaylord Nelson

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

President Bush calls himself an environmentalist. I think his heart's in the right place, but he hasn't demonstrated any leadership.

John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

The threat of nuclear war isn't nearly as important as the threat of the destruction of our resource base which sustains us.

In the last half century we haven't had Presidential leadership that addressed this question in the broadest and most important aspect.

I don't think most people understand where we're headed.

The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.

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