Stewart Udall Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Stewart Udall:

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

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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.

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There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

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Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

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Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

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Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

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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.

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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.

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I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

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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.'

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