The Conservation Of Natural Resources In The United States Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Conservation of Natural Resources A Word to the People of California. My friends, during the past year, My friends, during the past year I have become possessed by the idea that the largest, the most truly patriotic, the most vitally important movement in this nation to-day is the one looking to the Conservation of our Natural Resources. This has been large enough to call together a Conference of Governors, to cause the appointment of a National Commission, and to engage the earnest attention, the gravest concern of the greatest and most brilliant minds of our continent. It is patriotic, for it looks to the preservation of our fatherland into the future with its power and glory undimmed. It is vitally important, for without it our nation is doomed to go down to poverty and weakness. It is unsel sh, for it looks forward to the welfare of those who come after us, rather than for our own little personal bene t now. It is a vital and a worthy thing, however we view it. I have become possessed by the idea, too, that it is highly important for the school people of this State to join in this movement; for them to grasp its signi cance, appreciate its momentum, take hold of it strongly and intelligently. Such a movement as this must fail unless it can be projected into the future. It can only be projected into the future through the children of the nation. If it would really get permanently into the hearts of the People, it must lter through the Children. I conceive it to be a patriotic duty resting upon every teacher, every superintendent, every school of cer, to take his share of responsibility in this thing; to read, to talk, to think, to inform himself about this great movement for Conservation - and then to pass the spirit of it all along to the Children. In no other state or country is such variety and wealth of natural resources to be found as in California. Nowhere else is it being squandered with such careless hand, nor is there elsewhere such necessity for wise and thoughtful and far-seeing School People. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."