Stewart Udall Quotes

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• 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…
• Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
• A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
• Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
• 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…
• Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
• Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
• I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
• Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
• The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
• For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of…
• Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!
• I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
• It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
• We're all pretty individualistic.
• As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also…
• It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
• I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
• It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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