But forests, if used as all our forests have been used in the past and as most of them are still used, will be either wholly destroyed, or so damaged that many decades have to pass before effective use can be made of them again.
Roosevelt warns that improper use of forests can lead to their destruction and long recovery times.
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Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
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