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Stewart Udall
Age: 90 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 31
Died: 2010
Died: March 20
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Saint Johns
Arizona
Stewart Lee Udall
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
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Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
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If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
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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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Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
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I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
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As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.
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Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
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Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.
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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.
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The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.
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Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
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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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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
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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 life.
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Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.
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The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
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