Quotes from The Quiet Crisis — Stewart Udall
1920–2010 United States
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
The Quiet Crisis (1963)
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)
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)
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)