Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Nature is perfect.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

We were contented to let things remain as the great spirit made them. They were not, and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.

I have seen two tremendous works of nature in America—the Niagara Falls and Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt.

I do not like to see anything destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

Nature is nobody's ally.