Stewart Udall
Stewart Udall
Stewart Lee Udall 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1920
CountryUnited States of America
uranium-mining energy missions
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
peace land solitude
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.
ideas parks national-parks
Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
stress land oneness
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.
real west stories
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
brother native-american son
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.
stories peace-with-god bed
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.
life business long
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
giving people satisfaction
It gives me satisfaction to help people.
land america space
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.
running moving sacrifice
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.'
nature men air
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
confused greatness politics
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
eye america decision
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. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.