It's 1903
and this extraordinary gay
named Teddy Roosevelt
is standing on the edge
of the Grand Canyon
and at that time people wanted
to create hotels and spas
and turn the Grand Canyon in 1903
into a profit-making disneyland
of the environment.
And he stood and said no.
And he created a tipping point for
the environmental movement
and for the world.
He said: "leave it as it is.
the ages have been at work on it
and man can only mar it."
(Aplauses)
The world would have been
a different place today
without those words
those tipping point words
from Presidente Theodore Roosevelt