Progress

"When spelled with a capital letter by politicians, Progress is a specious excuse for the continued rape of the natural environment in behalf of maintaining and increasing our material civilization....We hold, in effect, a lease upon this earth, and the blind pursuit of material progress is a violation of that lease. We are forgetting to cultivate our our gardens."

Joel Hedgpeth, "Progress--The Flower of the Poppy," American Scientist (qouted in Richard Brewer's book "Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America.