Barry Commoner Quotes

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Nothing ever goes away.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.