Apart from any business consideration, apart from the question of the
immediate dollar, this problem of the future wealth and happiness and
prosperity of the people of the United States has a right to our
attention. It rises far above all matters of temporary individual
business advantage, and becomes a great question of national
preservation. We all have the unquestionable right to a reasonable use
of natural resources during our lifetime, we all may use, and should
use, the good things that were put here for our use, for in the last
analysis this question of conservation is the question of national
preservation and national efficiency.
CHAPTER VII
THE MORAL ISSUE
The central thing for which Conservation stands is to make this country
the best possible place to live in, both for us and for our descendants.
It stands against the waste of the natural resources which cannot be
renewed, such as coal and iron; it stands for the perpetuation of the
resources which can be renewed, such as the food-producing soils and the
forests; and most of all it stands for an equal opportunity for every
American citizen to get his fair share of benefit from these resources,
both now and hereafter.
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