I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of protecting America's natural resources as a shared legacy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote advocates for the preservation of America's natural landscape, emphasizing that rivers, valleys, lakes, and other resources are not merely commodities, but rather a collective heritage that belongs to all citizens. This call to action highlights the responsibility of society to safeguard the environment for current and future generations, recognizing nature's value beyond its economic aspects.
In practice
During a speech on environmental policy, one could quote Roosevelt to emphasize nature conservation.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.
There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
Until fishing is properly regulated and contained, we should withdraw our consent. Save your plastic bags by all means, but if you really want to make a difference, stop eating fish.
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