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To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very property which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 - 1919
We are all fools! Blinded with greed, we rape the earth and declare ourselves its masters. We glut ourselves with the riches, cut the forests down like wheat, and jingling our dollars cannot hear the voice of intolerable unrest within us. Beware America! The earth too has a voice which someday we must answer.
- Frank Waters, The Dust Within the Rock, , 1940
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
- John James Audubon, 1785 - 1851
