On the recordMay 10, 1903
I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future.
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presidency.ucsb.eduI do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future.
Remarks at the Big Tree Grove in Santa Cruz, California
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