Heroes for a Better World

Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919)

26th United States President, Conservationist
1906 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

birthdate: October 27
birthplace:
New York, New York

QUOTES

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

"I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates."

"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."

"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value."

The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

 


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