• Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

    Jimmy Carter: Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.
    Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.967, Best Books on