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- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — David Herbert Lawrence
- Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall
- We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. — Stewart Udall
- The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. — Stewart Udall