"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
— John James Audubon

January 1, 1970

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Sometimes attributed to Audubon in recent years, there are no occurrences of this statement that have been located prior to 1997, and it is probably derived from the remarks of Wendell Berry: