Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet?… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...'] — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
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