0:00:10.728,0:00:12.138
It's 1903

0:00:12.438,0:00:16.411
and this extraordinary gay [br]named Teddy Roosevelt

0:00:16.411,0:00:21.001
is standing on the edge [br]of the Grand Canyon

0:00:21.007,0:00:27.107
and at that time people wanted[br]to create hotels and spas

0:00:27.107,0:00:30.242
and turn the Grand Canyon in 1903 [br]

0:00:30.242,0:00:34.211
into	a profit-making disneyland [br]of the environment.

0:00:34.211,0:00:37.676
And he stood and said no. [br]

0:00:37.676,0:00:41.417
And he created a tipping point for[br]the environmental movement

0:00:41.417,0:00:42.868
and for the world.

0:00:42.868,0:00:45.785
He said: "leave it as it is.

0:00:45.935,0:00:51.455
the ages have been at work on it [br]and man can only mar it."

0:00:51.455,0:00:54.204
(Aplauses)

0:00:54.204,0:00:58.085
The world would have been[br]a different place today

0:00:58.085,0:01:02.811
without those words [br]those tipping point words

0:01:02.811,0:01:05.031
from Presidente Theodore Roosevelt