Just as Jessica Sheffield said in her essay Theodore Roosevelt, “Conservation As a National Duty” (May 13, 1980) “recast conservation as a public duty (rather that private) ) and a moral (rather than economic) issue” (Jessica Sheffield 3), President Roosevelt made conservation a matter of morality, the morality of the whole society. If you try to argue against President Roosevelt by stating that people have the right to decide how to use their own resources, he refutes this idea by quoting the court's words: “First, such ownership is not the result of productive labor, but derives exclusively from the State itself, the original owner; secondly, since the amount of land cannot increase, if the owners of large tracts can waste it at will without state restraint, the state and its people may become helplessly impoverished, and one of the great purposes of government may be defeated.” (Paragraph 45) He convinced people, who thought they were wasting their resources and did not feel guilty, that their behavior directly or indirectly impoverished the state and its people. Any good man, like governors, will reconsider their behavior when it causes problems for the whole