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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.

— Stewart Udall The Quiet Crisis (1963)

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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.

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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

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