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Land Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been…
- Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources…
- The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having…
- We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States…
- 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.…
- The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and…
- This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the…
- After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,…
- The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The…
- I hate a man who skins the land.
- It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.
- 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…
- Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none…
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- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. — Philip James Bailey
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. — Brigitte Bardot