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

—Stewart Udall

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Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and environmentalist who belonged to the Democratic Party. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B....

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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When industrial pollutants finally make the air unbreathable, we will be advised to cover the cities over with plastic domes and air-condition them. Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban industrialism.

—Theodore Roszak

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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

—George Burns

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I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water is too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, the schools are so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

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