Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy. — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk…You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share
As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
