The Quiet Crisis Author:Steward L. Udall 1964 Introduction by John F. Kennedy — From front fly leaf: — "America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open spaces, and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution, noise and blight. This,in brief is the quiet conservation cri... more »sis of the 1960's."