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.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

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.'

Washington's a cesspool of money.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.