50 CONFERENCE ON NATURAL BEAUTY 



is inside us. It is in you. It is in your mind and in your heart. 

 A beautiful waterfall is beautiful, provided in your youth you were 

 taken to picnics by a waterfall and you came to love the beauties 

 of nature. 



I am glad we have our special panel on the subject of education 

 which will go into all of this. Coming then to this, you've got to 

 have a center of strategy. It isn't a problem of coordination. We 

 are going to build highways and we are going to purify water and 

 we are going to deal with air pollution control and limit advertis- 

 ing and put some controls on junkyards. But you've got to have a 

 strategy and for that you need machinery at the Federal level, you 

 need machinery at the local level, and you need machinery at the 

 State level. Even if the internal operating patterns are different, 

 they can work together effectively if you create in each major area 

 a center of strategy. 



Mr. CLARK. It is most pleasurable to be able to talk on something 

 as happy as natural beauty. This is an opportunity lawyers don't 

 get too frequently since we are most often concerned with legal 

 technicalities, civil rights and crime rates. 



I am here primarily, I assume, because I have spent four years in 

 the Lands Division of the Department of Justice and have particular 

 experience in that connection that might shed some light on the 

 problems that we are considering this morning. 



I should say at the outset that because of the complexities of the 

 Federal Government, the Lands Division perspective litigation in 

 court in connection with land and related natural resources is not 

 ideal from the standpoint of a program of policy consideration. I 

 like to think first of the relationship between environment and char- 

 acter. It makes me think of an old Norse saying that the North made 

 the Viking. I think this has great truth about what concerns us here 

 today. Justice William Douglas put it in more colloquial terms when 

 he talked about the mountains of Oregon when he said, "Mountains 

 make decent men." But he wasn't talking about mountains in 

 which strip mining and other ravages of civilization had destroyed 

 the natural beauty. 



Government is today the technique available to us for securing 

 natural beauty. We can talk about natural beauty and we can have 

 and need all the associations and private organizations interested 

 in conservation and natural beauty. But when you get 195 million 

 Americans and concentrate them in our great metropolitan areas, 



