Best Stewart Udall Quotes
- A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save… Automobile
- I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said,… Bed
- If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.… Afford
- The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. Exemplifies
- The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an… Artistic
- Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. Capitalism
- 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… Alive
- Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. Air
- I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States. Area
- In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground. Ground
- One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy. Administration
- The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living… Acknowledge
- Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. Breeds
- The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It… According
- Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. Federal
- 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… All
- In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic… Age
- 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… Air
- I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of… Auto
- The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster. American
- Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants. Accountants