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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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Conservationist
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
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A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
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Just as you believe you may have already halfway there
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We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
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The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
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Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
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The light has gone out of my life.
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The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.
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