"I've grown impatient with the kind of debate we used to have about whether optimists or the pessimists are right. Neither are right. There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair." -- Donella Meadows

"What is generally regarded as success – acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige – I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means he is finished – his development has stopped at that point." – Emma Goldman

"I believe we must restore the sense of individual responsibility and involvement, and get away from the idea that conservation is the responsibility of someone else – the federal government, the state, the corporations, the rich. We need to look at our patterns of consumption and behavior and shed those practices that contribute to the destruction of nature. This is incredibly difficult to do in a society oriented toward consumption, material enrichment and waste." – Ray Dasmann in "Whole Earth Review," Spring 2001