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… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
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… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice.… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth! — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
