Theodore Roosevelt in the Field Quotes

“South America—the land of explorers like Charles Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt—was still teeming with untold stories of nature in 1913. Roosevelt’s small tastes of Cuba and Panama had only whetted his appetite for the neotropics, and since Kermit was living and working in Brazil, it seemed an opportune time to explore the region.”
― Michael R. Canfield, Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

“Along with food, Roosevelt considered the finer points of bullets, colored glasses, Zeiss lenses, iron pans, enameled tableware, cameras, and “flashlights.”32 When considering”
― Michael R. Canfield, Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

“Theodore’s imagination gave “the creatures of forest and field impersonations as vivid as those which Rudyard Kipling has made immortal.”
― Michael R. Canfield, Theodore Roosevelt in the Field