Quotes from Barry Commoner

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

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

No action is without its side effects.

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

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'