Barry Commoner Environment Quotations

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.

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

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.