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“We neither condemn nor condone what ELF [Earth Liberation Front] is doing … There is [sic] definitely some younger people growing up today who feel Earth First! doesn’t go far enough … I hope they aren’t caught. I applaud them for standing up and taking action.” — Jim Flynn, Earth First! activist and editor of the Oregon Sierra Club chapter magazine, as quoted in the Mail Tribune in 2001. Flynn was responding to the $400,000 Earth Liberation Front arson of an Oregon timber company.
“The Sierra Club made the Nature Conservancy look reasonable. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth look reasonable. Earth First! now makes us look reasonable. We’re still waiting for someone else to come along and make Earth First! look reasonable.” — David Brower, quoted by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb in their book Trashing the Economy (1993)
“Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” — David Brower, quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in Trashing the Planet
“Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.” — Former Sierra Club executive director David Brower, quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in her book Environmental Overkill
“In some cases burning a target is the most effective way of decommissioning it.” — Former Sierra Club board member Dave Foreman, in his 1985 book, EcoDefense
“Fact is, I think people in Montana can get along without strawberries in December.” — Sierra Club board member and former president Jennifer Ferenstein, promoting what she calls “bio-regionalism,” as quoted in 2003 by Range magazine
“The [Sierra] Club could begin to include animal rights positions in decades to come as members and the American public acknowledge the impact of our high animal protein diet on sustainability.” — Chairman of the Sierra Club Board of Directors Lisa Renstrom in the Club’s 2004 Election Candidate Forum
“We should never feel like we’re going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant.” — Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention
“There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history.” — Sierra Club board member Paul Watson, at the Animal Rights 2002 convention
“All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.” — Former Sierra Club executive director David Brower, as reported in the Los Angeles Times (1992)
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