Quotes by Stewart Udall

• Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
• Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
• 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.
• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.