"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means." ― Garrett Hardin Topic(s): Environmental More From Garrett Hardin "Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming." "Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum." "Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies." More In Environmental "Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."― Gale Norton "We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."― Paul Hawken "It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."― Martha Gellhorn