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“We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.”

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

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Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

This book serves as an encyclopedic reference to the life and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, offering a detailed exploration of his political career, conservation efforts, and personal interests. It includes biographical details, historical context, and analysis of his influence on the United States. more

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A progressive leader, he is known for his advocacy of the conservation movement, expansion of federal government regulation, and efforts to improve the lives of American citizens. more

“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

Stills Science Practice Environment Tree Huge Walking Bigger Sticks Environmental Ran Stakes Living Things Resent Vines Trunks Walking Sticks

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”

Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

“The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.”

Men Has Beens God America Science Delight Forests Slighted

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!”

World Ideas Past Science Interesting Mountain Organized Acquire Sand Iron Sublime Coal Clay Monument Geology Felicity Incumbents Interesting Ideas

Book:Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough

Source: Phytologia, or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening; with the theory of draining morasses and with an improved construction of the drill plough

“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.”