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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the transient nature of human existence and our relationship with the Earth, emphasizing our responsibility to future generations.
Stewart Udall's quote highlights the inherent connection between humanity and the land we inhabit. It suggests that regardless of our claims to ownership, we are temporary residents of this planet. Each generation has the opportunity and obligation to create a legacy that will impact the lives of those who come after us. This perspective calls for a deeper consideration of environmental stewardship and sustainable living, urging us to think beyond ourselves and to recognize our role in the continuum of life.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech on environmental conservation at a community event.
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
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.
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
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