Quest for Quality

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U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, 1965 - 96 pages

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Page 30 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 15 - ... city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.
Page 21 - ... Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation do that. But we have the responsibility for repaying, over a reasonable period of years, with interest, power's share of the cost of these multipurpose projects. We also are obligated to return to the Treasury the part of the cost of these projects allocated to irrigation but found to be beyond the ability of the water users to repay. Since the start of operations in 1938, we have returned more than $1 billion to the Treasury and, as of June 30, 1964, we...
Page 15 - But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvellous products of our labor.
Page 10 - When we start projecting the future needs we must take into consideration some harrowing misguesses of the recent past The US Bureau of the Census in 1947 predicted that this Nation would have 'a population of 145 million in 1950, of 153 million in 1960, and possibly 163 million by 1990'.
Page 94 - ... experience in this troublesome area through research in fuels used by automobiles and the constituents of automobile exhausts which contaminate the air. Our expertise will be available to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to aid in developing acceptable standards as called for in S. 306. A few years ago we were greatly concerned about the "ugly American.
Page 94 - Ugly American." Today we must act to prevent an ugly America. For once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

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