Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'
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