Even if you build the perfect reactor, you’re still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that’s plutonium.

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we’re drastically cutting our energy consumption, we’re actually raising our standard of living.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That’s the responsibility we hold in our hands.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen – to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

Politics is democracy’s way of handling public business. We won’t get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public’s business.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth’s wild places burn...

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth’s music.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature’s proper steward and society’s only hope.

If something’s going wrong with this planet we’d better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.