Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
About Stewart Udall
Stewart Lee Udallwas an American politician and later, a federal government official who belonged to the Democratic Party. 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.
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Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)
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.
American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
American Democratic politician, former United States Secretary of the Interior (1920-2010)