“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.”
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
“Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.”
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
― Nature
― Nature
“The only way to get good service is to give somebody power to render it, facing the fact that power which will enable a man to do a job well will also necessarily enable him to do it ill if he is the wrong kind of man.”
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
― Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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