"Over the long haul of life on this planet it is the ecologists — and not the bookkeepers of business — who are the ultimate accountants."
— Stewart Udall

January 1, 1970

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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansLawyers from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States Secretaries of the Interior
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Speech to the First National Congress on Optimum Population and Environment (June 9, 1970), cited in Noel Hinrichs (ed.) Population, Environment and People (McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1971), p. 144, and in Alec Lewis (ed.) The Quotable Quotations Book (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980), p. 62