“We must strive to become good ancestors.”
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
The Good Fight (2004)
“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.”
pages 271-284 (at page 276)
1890s, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895
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