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Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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

Breeds, Concerned, Contempt, Familiarity, Nature, Positive

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Confused, Fear, Greatness, Power

For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.

Age, Book, Men, Philosophy, Superb, Understand

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.

America, Beauty, Nature, Open, Pinnacle, Space

The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

Age, Insightful, Risk, Two, Vital

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

National Parks, Park, Service, Today, Tradition

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

Affair, Beauty, Earth, Sunset, Wild Places, Wonder

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Cesspool, Money

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

Administration, Fighting, Gerald, President, Republicans

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

Men, Modern, Needs, Precedence

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

Administration, Carter, Energy, Renewable

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.

Land, Life, Logic, Oneness, Stress

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

Doing Nothing, Ground, Growing, Losing, Population

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

Area, Colorado, Plateau, Scenic, Thinking, United States

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

American, Children, Encourage, Ones, Principles, Trying

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

Day, Oil, Oxygen, States, Three, Tribes

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

Air, Men, Nature, Plans, Protect

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

Real, Stories, Story, West, Work

We're all pretty individualistic.

Individualistic, Pretty

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

Man, Men, Obvious, Population, Qualities, Quality

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