Stewart Udall Quotes

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Stewart Udall

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 31, 1920

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, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

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

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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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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 planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

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Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

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The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

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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 values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

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There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

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Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

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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 was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

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Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

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I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

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Washington's a cesspool of money.

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Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

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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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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 undermined American morality.

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