That is what the founding fathers believed.
The following article from the Fall 2005 issue of Range Magazine by Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D., takes the reader on a tour through the heart of the environmentalist agenda and ends by stating that private "property rights are as important to the environment as they are to the people."
http://www.rangemagazine.com/specialreports/05-fall-taking-liberty.pdf
And for further enjoyment...... Remember the True Sounds of Liberty, or TSOL?