If an effect were to occur in 30 years, for many adults, that might not be that important. But a child of 5 years old -- in 30 years they will be 35, and that is something that would be of great concern.

Children are especially sensitive to environmental hazards, yet they're the ones getting dosed with diesel riding to school. The levels we measured on some of these buses both surprised and worried us. Worse still, we have reason to believe that these high levels are fairly typical.

Until these problems are cleaned up, it's not a good idea to have people moving for the long-term into these communities.

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?