“The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.” PeopleCountryHelpingYoungValuesFatherOpportunitySocialConsciousnessRolesLandMajorsDebtArtisticParksServingProvidingConservationOur FatherCivicsRecreationSocial ValuesSuperlativesOutdoor Recreation Author:Stewart Udall
“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.” ChoicesGenerationsLandPlanetsClaimsDespiteLegacyTitlesOwnershipDefaultHeirsFeesTenantsRendezvous Book:The Quiet Crisis Source: The Quiet Crisis
“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.'” GivingLongRunningMovingNaturalSpaceTechnologyEnvironmentProgressSacrificeLandDevelopmentSucceedResourcesLandscapeLong RunsUnnecessaryRefinedMoving Ahead Author:Stewart Udall
“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.” GivingEarthCommonAliveLandSonBrotherCreaturesEthicsNativeReverenceTraitsPrimitiveNative AmericanLoving LifeElementals Book:The quiet crisis and the next generation Source: The quiet crisis and the next generation
“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.” IfsWantLooksPeaceLandSolitudeHarmonySpeedInner PeaceFinding Yourself Book:The Quiet Crisis Source: The Quiet Crisis
“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.” ShouldHelpingLandTomorrowEthicsResourcesEconomicsLogicStressChainsOnenessEcology Book:The Quiet Crisis Source: The Quiet Crisis
“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.” TodayAmericaNatureWealthSpaceEnvironmentLandEnvironmentalNoisePollutionUglinessShrinkingVanishingPinnacleAmerica TodayBlightOpen Spaces Book:The Quiet Crisis Source: The Quiet Crisis
“Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.” UseTodayLandPolicyRemainsUtahBattlegroundLand Use Author:Stewart Udall
“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.” EndsStatesUseWould BeSpaceUnitedCitiesUnited StatesLandLimitsNewsPopulationBeing The BestWiserAutomobileOpen SpacesLand Use Author:Stewart Udall
