西奥多罗斯福在科罗拉多大峡谷演讲英文原稿

西奥多罗斯福在科罗拉多大峡谷演讲英文原稿
西奥多罗斯福在科罗拉多大峡谷演讲英文原稿

西奥多罗斯福在科罗拉多大峡谷演讲英文原稿
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Theodore Roosevelt was a great lover of animals and their natural environments. He was one of the very first to preserve parks and recreational spaces in this country. He made sure these places would ...

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Theodore Roosevelt was a great lover of animals and their natural environments. He was one of the very first to preserve parks and recreational spaces in this country. He made sure these places would be around for his children and everyone's children to see forever. One place he thought was very special was the Grand Canyon, so he made sure it would remain beautiful and unspoiled.
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"Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."
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This speech which President Roosevelt made at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, on May 6, 1903* shows how he thought people should treat the Grand Canyon.
"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which, so far as I know, is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to do one thing in connection with it in your own interest and in the interest of the country - to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is.
I was delighted to learn of the wisdom of the Santa Fe railroad people in deciding not to build their hotel on the brink of the canyon. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon.
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American if he can travel at all should see.
We have gotten past the stage, my fellow-citizens, when we are to be pardoned if we treat any part of our country as something to be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present generation, whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery. Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it."
* from "Presidential Addresses and State Papers". Note: paragraphs added here for readablility and emphasis.

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