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" Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea. "

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" I don't like the term 'dynasty.' "

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

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

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

" We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. "

" Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. "

" I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. "

" Washington's a cesspool of money. "

" It gives me satisfaction to help people. "

" 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. "

" Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. "

" 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. "

" I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. "

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

" I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States. "

" 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. "

" Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies. "

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

" The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them. "

" 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. "

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