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