The general plan. 



But any plan will fail unless it can be backed up, supported, and 

 urged on by a strong, determined, ever alert Public Opinion. 



Therefore, the movement must extend to the people, to the teachers, 

 to the children. Each man, woman and child must rise to meet his 

 duty. Commissions and legislatures can accomplish nothing unless 

 there is behind them the patriotic spirit of the people. The movement 

 for the Conservation of Natural Resources will go as far as public 

 opinion will carry it it can go no further. 



Aristotle said, "All who have meditated on the art of governing man- 

 kind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the educa- 

 tion of the youth." 



WHAT PEOPLE ARE THINKING 



This movement is so new that many of us do not yet appreciate its 

 momentum. Most of us never even thought of it until within the last 

 few years. 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 persons we respect or persons 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 instance, 

 in the morning exercises, one can be read aloud by a pupil, or ex- 

 plained by the teacher. Another may be given as a declamation or a 

 reading at some entertainment or patriotic celebration. Others, again, 

 will yield quotations and strong points for debates, essays and similar 

 school activities. 



Naturally, the teacher must feel the spirit and enthusiasm of the 

 conservation movement to do the most good and we believe in the 

 manhood and womanhood of Georgia. 



President of the American Forest Association. 



"Those who are genuinely and intelligently devoted to the support 

 and spread of the principles of Forestry know that Forestry is not 

 merely a fad or hobby of the Nature lover; it is a highly important 

 and patriotic movement: the Pioneers of Forestry in our country 

 were in reality the Pioneers in the development of the great principles 

 of Conservation that are now engaging the attention of the whole 

 land. It may be well to take account of the stock of the strength 

 of the movement today. Forestry has been called the Keystone of 

 Conservation perhaps an equally apt designation would be to term it 

 the foundation or beginning of the Conservation Movement and today 

 its principles are being taught in the great schools of Forestry main- 

 tained at so many of our leading institutions of higher education. 



The American Forestry Association, founded over thirty years 

 ago, is a voluntary organization for the inculcation and spread of 

 a forest policy on a scale adequate to the economic needs of our Nation, 

 and any person is eligible for membership. The Association is inde- 

 pendent, has no connection with any Federal or State Department 

 or policy, and is devoted to a public service conducive to national 



