QuoteQuest“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (26 February 1937)); this statement has sometimes been paraphrased and prefixed to an earlier FDR statement of 29 January 1935 to read: "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
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