Stewart Udall Quotes

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

Earth was not built to serve the needs of humans.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.