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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. "
Best
End
Ending
" Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models. "
Quarter
Next
Auto
" Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth. "
Wild
Wonder
Beauty
" 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. "
Generation
Ownership
Choice
" Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. "
Judges
Responsibility
Government
" I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems. "
Transportation
Energy
I Am
" I don't like the term 'dynasty.' "
Like
Term
Dynasty
" I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on. "
Big
Remember
Ford
" 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. "
Progress
America
Decisions
" 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.' "
Peace
Know
Death
" I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. "
Children
American
Trying
" In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground. "
Growing
Losing
Nothing
" In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. "
History
Most
Age
" I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. "
High
Hand
Day
" It gives me satisfaction to help people. "
Gives
Help
Me
" I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States. "
Begin
World
Think
" Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens. "
Bird
Values
Flowers
" Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. "
Like
Mining
Mission
" Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. "
Modern
Man
Will
" Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good. "
Good
Environment
President
" Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back. "
People
Energy
Back
" One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy. "
Renewable Energy
Policy
Energy
" Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants. "
Planet
Business
Life
" Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. "
Environmental
Man
Water
" So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. "
Culture
People
Cold
" Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that. "
Been
Had
Some
" 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. "
American
Justice
Government
" 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. "
Balance
Values
Natural Beauty
" The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster. "
Choice
American
Growth
" The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. "
Environmental
Pressure
Pollution
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