Conservation of Natural Resources in California. 



WHAT PEOPLE ARE 

 THINKING. 



Written In 1908. 



This movement is so new that 

 many of us do not yet appreciate 

 its momentum. Most of us never 

 even heard of it until within 

 the last few months. Nothing 

 can give us a better idea of it, 

 perhaps, and nothing can be 

 more interesting than to see what 

 other people are really thinking 

 and saying about it ; particularly 

 so if the other people are ones 

 we respect or ones who have had 

 unusual opportunity to know 

 what they are talking about. 

 With this in view the following 

 expressions of individual opinion 

 have been collected. 



These can be used by a clever 

 teacher in many ways. For in- 

 stance, in the morning exercises, 

 one can be read aloud by a pupil, 

 or explained by the teacher. 

 Another may be given as a dec- 

 lamation or a reading at some 

 entertainment or patriotic cele- 

 bration. Still another, perhaps, 

 will yield quotations and strong 

 points for debates, essays and 

 other similar school activities. 



Of course, if the spirit does 

 not move the teacher to use these 

 things, they all fall flat. But 

 California teachers never lack 

 for spirit. 



A bit of our forest 



