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Our Forests 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…
- The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while…
- 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…
- We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when…
More Our Forests Quotes
- Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
- To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame,… — Denis Diderot
- The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.… — Barack Obama
- Right now, our mother -- our mother -- all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of… — Leonardo DiCaprio
- As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the… — Greg Walden
- As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal… — William Howard Taft
- The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
- Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is… — Maneka Gandhi
- I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our… — Nelson Mandela
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which… — Henry David Thoreau
- It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
- Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them… — Greg Walden