American Quote by Stewart Udall Download Open image “Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.” — Stewart Udall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Ideas National National park National parks Nature Parks System Wilderness
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the… — John Muir Copy Share
“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two… — Aldo Leopold 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
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
