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The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
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