Redford, Robert
Robert Redford is an actor, director, and producer of films. He is president of the Institute for Resource Management, sponsor of a conference on global warming with the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Sundance, Utah, in 1989. He is also a board member of the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council. He received the Audubon Medal in 1989 and the 1987 United Nations Global 500 award.

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It's a pretty lousy legacy we've left for our children. We should be apologizing. Heaven Is Under Our Feet, 1992.

 

Native Americans try to live with seven generations in mind, but recently we have been plunging blindly ahead without thought for even one generation. Ibid.

 

I have always assumed that love of land and love of country go together. Ibid.

 

It used to be that, in the minds of some, environmentalism meant camping out, eating Granola, and hugging a tree. I remember Senator Jake Garn of Utah once called environmentalists "backpacking kooks." It later became clear that it was the Senator who was out in space. Ibid.

 

Poll after poll indicates that the people are way ahead of the politicians. Ibid.

 

American democracy has a long history of change won by popular movements - women's suffrage, labor laws, the civil rights movement, the end of the Vietnam war. It seems to me the grassroots activism we see around the country is evidence that there is a movement underway that wants action on behalf of the environment. Ibid.