Quotes By Barry Commoner

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

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

Nature knows best.

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.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

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

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

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

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