Stewart Udall Quotes
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
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Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
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A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
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It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
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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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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
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The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
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As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.
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If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
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Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
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I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
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We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.
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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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Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.