Common Quote 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. The minister…

— Stewart Udall

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

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

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

— Stewart Udall

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

— Stewart Udall

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

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

— Stewart Udall

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

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

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

— Stewart Udall

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

— Stewart Udall

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

— Stewart Udall