Brigham Young: Are you not dissatisfied, and is there not bitterness in your feelings, the moment you find a [c]anyon put in the possession of an individual, and power given unto him to control the timber, wood, rock, grass, and, in short, all its facilities?1

Ezra Taft Benson: The outward expressions of irreverence for God, for life, and for our fellowmen take the form of things like littering, heedless strip-mining, heedless pollution of water and air. 2

Gordon B. Hinckley: This earth is [Christ's] creation. When we make it ugly, we offend him.3

Alexander B. Morrison: [O]ur current way of life is simply environmentally unsustainable. The immensely complex and still not fully understood systems that sustain life on earth are being destroyed by human activities.4

Richard F. Haglund, Jr. & David J. Whittaker: Dominion over the earth is not a license to plunder, but a sacred trust to conserve life and protect the environment.5

Alan J. Hawkins, David C. Dollahite & Clifford J. Rhoades: [T]he hearts of today's fathers and mothers are turned to the children when they begin to care about what kind of natural environment their descendants will have. "Cursed" and "utterly wasted" (Mal. 4:6; Joseph Smith--History 1:39) are accurate descriptions of what the earth will look like if practices of reckless disregard for the natural environment continue.6

Terry Tempest Williams: If we act on the premise that we are not alone, that other individuals and creatures have wants and needs, that our definition of community is not just human-centered but creation-centered, then we begin to engage in a spiritual economics that promises to be more unselfish than our present relationship to Other.7

Ted Wilson: Though it is true that...people must make a living, it is also true that the forces of development on an increasingly crowded planet threaten to tear down our temples of nature. We must seek wisdom and temperance that go beyond the equilibrium of the marketplace. 8

Walter van Beek: Though possibly far-fetched, one European LDS style might be the development of a 'green Mormonism'. Ecological issues weigh heavily in Europe, and European members sometimes wonder why church leaders say so little about ecological problems. Mormon doctrine easily can accommodate an involved partnership with the environment. 9

NOTES
1.	Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886), 1:211.
2.	Ezra Taft Benson, "Problems Affecting the Domestic Tranquility of Citizens of the United States," Vital Speeches 42 (1 Feb. 1976): 240.
3.	Gordon B. Hinckley, "What Shall I Do Then with Jesus Which Is Called Christ?" Ensign (Dec. 1983): 3.
4.	Alexander B. Morrison, Visions of Zion (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993), 77-78.
5.	Richard F. Haglund, Jr. & David J. Whittaker, "Intellectual History," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., ed. Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 688.
6.	Alan J. Hawkins, David C. Dollahite & Clifford J. Rhoades, "Turning the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children: Nurturing the Next Generation," BYU Studies 33 (Spring 1993): 284.
7.	Terry Tempest Williams, "West of Eden," New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community, ed. Terry Tempest Williams, William B. Smart & Gibbs M. Smith (Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1998), 215.
8	Ted Wilson, "The Truth of Granite: A Canyon Conversion," New Genesis, 15.
9.	Wouter van Beek, "Ethnization and Accommodation: Dutch Mormons in Twenty-first-century Europe (Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought: Volume 29, no.1, Spring 1996)