Stewart Udall

Politician

1920-01-31

Quotes by Stewart Udall

• The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

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• Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

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• 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.

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• I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.

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• The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

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• Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

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• The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

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• The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

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

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

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