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I don't like the term 'dynasty.'
Washington's a cesspool of money.
We're all pretty individualistic.
It gives me satisfaction to help people.
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.
There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.
The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
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.
One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
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.
Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
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.
As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
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.
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.
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.