"If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics……" — Stewart Udall
"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. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present."
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46 Quotes by Stewart Udall
Stewart Udall has 46 quotes on this site.
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If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the…
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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
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A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of…
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Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who…
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty,…
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Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract…
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
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I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
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The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book.…
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