Teddy Roosevelt An Environmentalist

I believe Teddy Roosevelt knew exactly what he was doing when he began his nature campaign to set acres of land, monuments and historical sites aside for the future of America. He loved the outdoors and our heritage and wanted to assure that every generation to follow was going to have the same advantage. Roosevelt knew that the land grabs were going to be inevitable. He knew that the purveyors of commerce would soon deplete the very resources they sold to make their money with little to no regard for the replenishment of said resources. He knew that he needed to protect our natural beauty before it was raped and destroyed.

In today 's political atmosphere, the elite 1% would all convene at a local island resort and figure out how they …show more content…
Naturally, times have changed the way we see things and in the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, hunting was an unregulated and acceptable practice. Licenses today help monitor herds and flocks so their numbers stay in balance with the ecosystem surrounding them. Still considered an environmentalist, I suspect that Roosevelt 's love of hunting would have been squelched to a degree if he knew the long term unsustainable outcome would have thrown his beloved wild lands into waste lands. Teddy was a sensitive man, and he had developed a love for animals in his youth. Although he was as rough on the outside as the hide of a wild boar, his gentile upbringing lent itself to perspectives that other men of the time did not widely embrace and conservationism was one of …show more content…
His energy was non-stop and he was very athletic. As a child he was fragile and suffered asthma, but as he grew older and stronger with the support of his father, he developed an athlete 's stamina. He loved boxing and football. He lost the sight in his left eye during his Presidency while boxing a young navy officer for sport. He step in and was influential in shaping college football by offering better safety regulations after seeing that the game was getting too dangerous. Other ways he liked to keep fit was by rowing the Potomic. He brought martial arts to the White House. Prior to his stint in the Whte House with unbounded energy he formed the famous Calvary group known as the Rough Riders, and brought victory to the battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba during he Spanish American War. From the time he found his physical strength he never