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It's 1903

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and this extraordinary gay 
named Teddy Roosevelt

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is standing on the edge 
of the Grand Canyon

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and at that time people wanted
to create hotels and spas

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and turn the Grand Canyon in 1903 


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into	a profit-making disneyland 
of the environment.

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And he stood and said no. 


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And he created a tipping point for
the environmental movement

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and for the world.

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He said: "leave it as it is.

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the ages have been at work on it 
and man can only mar it."

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(Aplauses)

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The world would have been
a different place today

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without those words 
those tipping point words

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from Presidente Theodore Roosevelt