“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.” IfsFirstsChildrenImportantCountryNaturalTreeDutyElementsResourcesOur ChildrenForestsConservationNatural Resources Book:Presidential addresses and state papers Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.” PeopleThinkingYearsChildrenUseProblemBigsRealizingNaturalClassMiddleResourcesIndiaUpsetMiddle ClassNatural ResourcesBig FamiliesTanzania Author:Jane Goodall