“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it.…So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
About This Quote
"The National Parks and Forest Reservations", address to the Sierra Club Meeting held 23 November 1895; published in Sierra Club Bulletin, volume 1, number 7 (January 1896)
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