But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that 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 in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

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"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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"The leader leads, and the boss drives."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

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"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

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"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

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"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

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