The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.