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President, Hunter, Naturalist
President, Hunter, Naturalist
Roosevelt was an enthusiastic naturalist and when he assumed the presidency in 1901 following the death of William McKinley, his service was soon marked by his commitment to preserving natural places and wildlife. Within a little more than a year Roosevelt had established his first two national parks, Crater Lake in Oregon and Wind Cave in South Dakota.
Roosevelt went on to set aside 230 million acres of federal land for conservation, creating federal bird reservations, national game preserves, and national parks, among other sites. In 1915 the former president wrote, "wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people alive to-day, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander."
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Where Credit Belongs
Where Credit Belongs
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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