Comment: Senator Sinema, help the people in Virginia to stop uranium mining in the State of Presidents, we want to keep our clean air, clean water and good health, Keep the Ban in Virginia!
Posted: 11/2/11 07:27 PM ETKyrsten Sinema.
Arizona State Senator, Adjunct Professor at ASU's School of Social Work, Author
I am proud to be an Arizona State Senator. I am even prouder to be a native Arizonan, an avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast and to be in the state which is home to the magnificent Grand Canyon. Like most Arizonans I stake a personal claim to our treasured monument. President Teddy Roosevelt said it best in a 1903 speech delivered at the Grand Canyon, saying in part:
"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which, so far as I know, is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to do one thing in connection with it in your own interest and in the interest of the country -- to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is.
I was delighted to learn of the wisdom of the Santa Fe railroad people in deciding not to build their hotel on the brink of the canyon. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon.
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American if he can travel at all should see.
We have gotten past the stage, my fellow-citizens, when we are to be pardoned if we treat any part of our country as something to be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present generation, whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery. Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's
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