68 Quotes by Stewart Udall

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

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!

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

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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.

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.

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

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