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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

Book by Richard M. Nixon · 4 quotes · Conservative, Air, Water

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“The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?”

“We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.”