Leave it (the Grand Canyon) as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children’s children and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.
President Theodore Roosevelt, How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History by Stephen J. Pyne. Penguin Books. 1998. p.13
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