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Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official who belonged to the Democratic Party. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F.
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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.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
The Quiet Crisis (1963)
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the Earth!
The real story of settlement was a story of work, not conquest.
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.
The Quiet Crisis (1963)
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail; the economists and statisticians its keepers.
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.
The Quiet Crisis (1963)
Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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 overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.
The Quiet Crisis (1963)
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.
The Quiet Crisis (1963)
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