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Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

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Stewart Udall
Age: 90 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 31
Died: 2010
Died: March 20
American Politician
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Saint Johns
Arizona
Stewart Lee Udall
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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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The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
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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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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
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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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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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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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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
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Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
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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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I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
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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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Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.
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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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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
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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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We're all pretty individualistic.
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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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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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