...unexhausted, to our descendants ? Unless we do, those who come after us will ?ftfE FIGHT'- FOR CONSERVATION have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and...American people is their superb practical optimism; that marvellous hopefulness which keeps the individual efficiently at work. This hopefulness of the American...

...1898, was a typical reformer of the period. He helieved that with the exhaustion of natural resources "disaster and decay in every department of national life follow as a matter of course."3 6 This thought was revolutionary for Americans. By conserving natural resources in a rational...

...this as the core of the Progressive agenda. He opens The Fight for Conservation with the claim that "the conservation of natural resources is the basis,...There are other conditions, but this one lies at the foundation."62 American prosperity and liberty are themselves premised on the abundance of nature,...

...Theodore Roosevelt, he also linked his concern with land management to the future strength of his country. "The conservation of natural resources is the basis,...and the only permanent basis, of national success," he wrote. For Pinchot, natural resources were not sacred and otherworldly but an indispensable ingredient...

...collapse of ancient Rome and Greece, and championed the "wise use" of America's natural resources: "The conservation of natural resources is the basis,...and the only permanent basis, of national success." Pinchot, a child of the New York City elite, compared a nation's resources to a family trust fund,...