Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

I feel sad for those that have been buried on that land, knowing their bones will be underwater,