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• The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

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  National Parks, Today, Tradition

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• Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

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  Holy Grail, Gross, Capitalism

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• The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

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  Two, Risk, Insightful

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• Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

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  Wind Blowing, People, Energy

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• We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

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  Block, Average, Car

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• It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

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  Men, Quality, Population

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

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  Journey, Hiking, Conspiracy

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• I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

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  Children, Trying, Principles

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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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  Energy, Administration, Carter

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• I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

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  Fighting, President, Administration

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• Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

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  Oxygen, Oil, Three

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

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  Men, Needs, Modern

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• Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

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  Utah, Land, Use

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• As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

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  Wind, Public Opinion, Ships

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• We're all pretty individualistic.

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  Individualistic

  "Stewart Udall, former interior secretary, dies" by Barry Massey, www.sfgate.com. March 21, 2010.

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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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  Horse, School, Hands

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• Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

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  President, Environment, Gerald Ford

  "Cash and Carry, Bob Barr on Civil Liberties, and US Environmental Policies". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 14, 2003.

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• I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

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  Thinking, United States, Colorado

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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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  Land, Cities, Space

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