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“Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.”

Country Water Wealth Air Ocean Rivers Environmental Forests Soil Lakes Wildlife Minerals Habitat Scenic

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.”

Firsts Country Felt Seasons Luck Woods Smell Forests Evening Smoke Tea Autumn September Curtains Good Luck Begin Again

Book:More Was Lost: A Memoir

Source: More Was Lost: A Memoir

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Children Important Country Natural Tree Duty Elements Resources Our Children Forests Conservation Natural Resources

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”

People Children Country Faces Science Tree Future Forests Hopeless Helpless Forests And Trees Arbor Day

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.”

Way Should Wells Littles Country Whole Individual Gains Destruction Conservative Criminals Forests Well Being Permit Preservation

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.”

People Children Country Helping Faces Used Water Acting Tree Citizens Benefits Plant Woods Forests Preserves Hopeless Factories Helpless Reservoirs Good Citizen

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.”

Believe Mean Made Country States Whole Growth United United States Ready Demand Disaster Forests Our Country Inevitable Have Faith

Book:Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece

Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece

“A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.”

Country Political Cutting Tree Come Up Forests Old Trees

Book:The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

“I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.”

People Knows Men Country Government Nations Interest Justice Party Dog Honesty Duty Discipline Cost Rewards Forests One Man Pauses Raccoons

Author:Davy Crockett