Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"There is no reason why either Government or private banking industry should not consider trees just as much of an asset as houses or barns."

"The idle dream has become a fact."

"We must start at the bottom and persuade the farmer that he must only take off his woodlot each year the amount of trees equivalent to the growth made in that woodlot that year."

"The people in the last two years have become more and more conscious of the practical economic effect of what we are doing."