Stewart Udall quotes

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. (Stewart Udall)
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!
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There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.
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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'
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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
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Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. (Stewart Udall)
Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.
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Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
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It gives me satisfaction to help people.
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I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
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Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
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If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
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Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back. (Stewart Udall)
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
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I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
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Washington's a cesspool of money.
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