Stewart Udall Quotes

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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

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

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

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

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.

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

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

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

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

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

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

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.

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.

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

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

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

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

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

We're all pretty individualistic.

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

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

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.