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The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real knowledge of their extent and condition. The relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of National welfare and National efficiency had not yet dawned on the public mind. The reclamation of arid public lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone; and our magnificent river system, with its superb possibilities for public usefulness, was dealt with by the National Government not as a unit, but as a disconnected series of pork-barrel problems, whose only real interest was in their effect on the reelection or defeat of a Congressman here and therea theory which, I regret to say, still obtains.   Roosevelt, Theodore

Source: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography , chapter 11, p. 386 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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