Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest