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The lesson of deforestation in China is a lesson which mankind should have learned many times already from what has occurred in other places.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that the lessons from deforestation in China should serve as a cautionary tale for humanity.

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