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Stewart Udall

(1920–2010) Politician

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Stewart Udall was a politician, best known for Quiet Crisis.

Quick Facts About Stewart Udall

Born: January 31, 1920
Died: March 20, 2010
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Quiet Crisis

About Stewart Udall

Stewart Lee Udall was an American politician and environmentalist 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. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. A staunch liberal, he is best known for enthusiastically promoting environmentalism while in the cabinet, with success primarily under President Johnson.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Stewart Udall

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister.…

Bed

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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental…

Alive

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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It…

According

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

Man

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

Doing nothing

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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of…

Automobile

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Confused

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Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the…

Bird

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I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Administration

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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Common

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

Air

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Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

Affair

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

Government

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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing…

America

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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…

Accountants

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I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

Cents

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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals…

Age

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Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long…

Development

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There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

Arizona

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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Goals

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Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

Capitalism

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Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Always

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I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin…

Am

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

Advocacy

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We're all pretty individualistic.

Funny

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Stewart Udall by topic

Land (9) Nature (8)