Stewart Udall

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

“The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.”

“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”

“Cherish your wilderness.”

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”

“A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology.”

“Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.”

“The modern technologist has been so mesmerized by the glamor of his own creations that he has literally lost sight of the world of living things.”

“If you want to live a long time, don't fool with mother nature.”

“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.”

“Good planets are hard to find.”

“The crisis of the environment is a crisis of the spirit. We have lost our sense of belonging to the earth.”