Stewart Udall Quotes

We have extracted from the land from the moment we stood on two feet. We are working to supply the kinds of materials that are necessary for the lives we've built for ourselves.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

We nor our bailiffs will take another man’s wood for Our castles or any other purpose without the owner’s consent.

I have very large ideas about the mineral wealth of the nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible.

No nation has ever aggressively and intensely exploited national resources over such a great area as has the United States.

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.

Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

The oil companies don’t own the resources…. We own the resources.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid.

If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.