Gaylord Nelson Quotes
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Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
— Gaylord Nelson
Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
— Gaylord Nelson
Try. Fail. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
He said, Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.
— John McPhee
She watered her pepper plants with the water she used to rinse out her unmentionables ...
— Carolyn Brown
You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
— Mickey Mantle
We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
— Gaylord Nelson
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
— Gaylord Nelson
Humans are almost always lonely.
— Frank Herbert
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
— Gaylord Nelson
It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.
— Habeeb Akande
The Catholic schoolgirl in me was scandalized by the thought; I told her we'd been thrown out of Catholic school so she should shut up.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.
— Gaylord Nelson
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
— Laura Schlessinger
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
— Gaylord Nelson