We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.
Theodore RooseveltThe teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.
Theodore RooseveltThe nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
Theodore Roosevelt