Gross National Product is our Holy Grail; the economists and statisticians its keepers. - Stewart L. Udall

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.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

We who have chopped and mined and built and machined our way to wealth and power now grope out from our cities...for something we cannot forget. Beyond the noise and the asphalt and ugly architecture, we yearn for the long waves and beach grass; we see white wings on morning air, and in the afternoon, the shadows cast by the doorways of history.