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Stewart Udall
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“Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (June 13, 1965): cited in Bruce Bohle (ed.) The Home Book of American Quotations (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1967), p. 187
“We who have chopped and mined and built and machined our way to wealth and power now grope out from our cities...for something we cannot forget. Beyond the noise and the asphalt and ugly architecture, we yearn for the long waves and beach grass; we see white wings on morning air, and in the afternoon, the shadows cast by the doorways of history.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dedication of Cape Cod National Seashore, in The New York Times (June 5, 1966): cited in C. W. Mattison; Joseph Alvarez, Man and His Resources in Today's World (Mankato, MN: Creative Educational Society, Inc., 1967), p.…
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968), p. 101
“Gross National Product is our Holy Grail; the economists and statisticians its keepers.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man... an Endangered Species? (U.S. Department of the Interior, 1968), foreword
“Over the long haul of life on this planet it is the ecologists — and not the bookkeepers of business — who are the ultimate accountants.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the First National Congress on Optimum Population and Environment (June 9, 1970), cited in Noel Hinrichs (ed.) Population, Environment and People (McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1971), p. 144, and in Alec Lewis (ed.) The …
“Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (New York: Forbes Inc., 1989), p. 268
“The real story of settlement was a story of work, not conquest.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West (Island Press, 2002), pp. 83–4
“Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the Earth!”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his grandchildren (December 24, 2009); cited in Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks (New York: Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), p.…
“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.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. 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.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source