"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the universe."

The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it."-

"It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh."

"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble."

"Ultimately our progress as a nation will be measured by how well we preserve and improve our own quality of life and that of future generations. "

"The right of all forms [of life] to live is a universal right which cannot be quantified. No single species of living being has more of this particular right to live and unfold than any other species."

"Every individual should take responsibility for the earth."

“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.”

“Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.”

“To sit back and push this away and deal with it sometime down the road is dishonest and self-destructive.”