68 Quotes by Stewart Udall

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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 over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

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

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

We’re all pretty individualistic.

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to ‘progress.’

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

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