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  • I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

  • I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

  • It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

    "Santa Fe Portrait; A Longtime Pillar of the Government Now Aids Those Hurt by Its Bombs" by Keith Schneider, www.nytimes.com. 1993.
  • The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

  • 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.

  • It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

    Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
  • 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.

    Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
  • One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

  • Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

  • The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

  • America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

    Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
  • Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

    Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
  • Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

  • 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.'

  • Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

  • Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

    "Cash and Carry, Bob Barr on Civil Liberties, and US Environmental Policies". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 14, 2003.
  • Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

  • 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.

  • So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

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  • The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

  • Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

  • Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

  • In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

  • 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.

    Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith
  • For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.

  • 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.

    Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
  • Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

  • Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

  • The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

  • 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.

    Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith
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    Stewart Udall

    • Born: January 31, 1920
    • Died: March 20, 2010
    • Occupation: American Politician