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On the recordSeptember 14, 2004
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Quoting Lyndon Johnson on the importance of preserving wilderness for future generations.

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