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Bruce Babbitt

"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

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"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."

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"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."

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"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow."

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"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

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"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."

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"Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process."
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"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."
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"I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing."
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"Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict."
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"I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that."
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"This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it."
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"I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments."
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"There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do."
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"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."
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