"We who have chopped and mined and built and machined our way to wealth and power now grope out from our cities...for something we cannot forget. Beyond the noise and the asphalt and ugly architecture, we yearn for the long waves and beach grass; we see white wings on morning air, and in the afternoon, the shadows cast by the doorways of history."
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Dedication of Cape Cod National Seashore, in The New York Times (June 5, 1966): cited in C. W. Mattison; Joseph Alvarez, Man and His Resources in Today's World (Mankato, MN: Creative Educational Society, Inc., 1967), p. 99, and in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 288
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Stewart Udall
Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official 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. Johnson. A staunch liberal, he is best known for enthusiastically promoting environmentalism while in the cabinet, with success primarily under President Johnson.
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