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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. "
Stewart Udall
Begin
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" Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies. "
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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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" In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground. "
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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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" I don't like the term 'dynasty.' "
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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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" Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that. "
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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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" 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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" We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. "
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" Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. "
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Mining
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" Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea. "
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" 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. "
Stewart Udall
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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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Hand
Day
" Washington's a cesspool of money. "
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Washington
Money
Cesspool
" 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. "
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Values
Flowers
" So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. "
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Culture
People
Cold
" Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. "
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Man
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" 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. "
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History
Most
Age
" 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. "
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Pressure
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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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Choice
American
Growth
" Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. "
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Judges
Responsibility
Government
" 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. "
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Quarter
Next
Auto
" 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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American
Justice
Government
" Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good. "
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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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" It gives me satisfaction to help people. "
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Me
" 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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Brother
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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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" 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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Know
Death