Words matter. These are the best Stewart Udall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m trying to encourage my children’s generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
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.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.
Washington’s a cesspool of money.
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.’
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
I don’t remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I’ve always been critical of that.
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
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.
I don’t like the term ‘dynasty.’
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.
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.
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.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
There’s not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.
I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
