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34 Ariz. L. Rev. 293 (1992)
Book Review

handle is hein.journals/arz34 and id is 305 raw text is: Book Review THE QUIET CRISIS REVISITED A. Dan Tarlock* I. A PERSONAL, WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Former Secretary of the Interior Stuart L. Udall's 1963 and 1988 edi- tions of The Quiet Crisis tell two stories of the evolution of ideas, a personal and a philosophical. Both books have an important message for the environ- mental movement world-wide, but first and foremost they are an important chapter in the long history of the Far West to define itself. Two visions of what our greatest student of the region, Wallace Stegner, has recently called hope's native home' have increasingly competed for dominance since the period of scientific exploration. The West was originally viewed as a vast storehouse of natural resources to be exploited for maximum immediate ben- efit, a land of hope and dreams. An alternative dream has emerged, as the environmental and social consequences of this individualistic vision have become clear. In an earlier book, The American West as Living Space, Stegner articulated a vision of communities living with not against nature.2 The Quiet Crisis is a history of a personal and scholarly engagement with the forces that are pulling away from the first and moving toward the second vision. Secretary Udall has charted the intellectual and emotional odyssey that many of us who deeply love this region have experienced as the tensions between the two visions have become clearer. Growing up in the West of the 1950's, I had an intuitive sense that the land was special. The sharp intake of thin air on a crystal clear early winter morning at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, dusted with snow and filled with the scent of pinions, made an indelible impression even on a teenager in that more innocent, pre-electronic era. But, I understood neither the non- romantic history of the region nor the hard and complex choices about the use * A.B., 1962, LL.B., 1965 Stanford University. Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law. I would like to thank my colleage Fred Bosselman for his usual insightful and artful suggestions and corrections. I. Wallace Stegner, Land of Hope, Land of Ruin, N.Y. TIMES, March 29, 1992, at E-17, col. 2. 2. WALLACE STEGNER, THE AMERICAN WEST AS LIVING SPACE (1987). This theme is further explored in CHARLES F. WILKINSON, THE EAGLE BIRD: MAPPING A NEW WEST (1992).

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