A biography for Stewart Udallhasn’t been written yet.
“I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.”
“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.”
“Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.”
“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.”
“Washington's a cesspool of money.”
“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.'”
“I don't like the term 'dynasty.'”
“I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.”
“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.”
“Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.”
“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.”
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”
“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.”
“If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.”
“There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.”
“I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.”
“I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.”