Weekend quote: The threat of selfish men and greedy interests

Photo by Fabrizio Conti

 

Here is your country. 

Cherish these natural wonders, 

cherish the natural resources, 

cherish the history and romance 

as a sacred heritage, 

for your children 

and your children’s children. 

Do not let selfish men 

or greedy interests 

skin your country of its beauty, 

its riches 

or its romance.

 —Theodore Roosevelt

Accountability

Photo by Petr Kratochvil

"We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted ... So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life."

                                                                           -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Arbor Day - A Message to the School-Children of the United States" April 15, 1907

What can I do?

"Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are."

                            -- Theodore Roosevelt