FORMER PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT`S PASSION FOR NATURE.
"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm."
Although some might say that a snowy morning is a waste of time, I`d say you should hook up to website or blogs and pick out from endless sightseeing possibilities, such as museums and art galleries, which by the way are way breathtaking in NYC.
Located in central park, the Museum of American Natural History provides persons with immense life-like pictures and excellent sight scenarios with wild life and all sorts of animals you may imagine.
Not to mention, long and well signed halls that take you through a entire and exquisite animal "window shopping".
In this building you can breath history, geography, biology, not to mention a set of cultural facts displayed by a huge number of visitors, which brings out a complex mixture of languages and behaviors.
Wandering around the hall, person can just bump into one of the most popular and charismatic of american presidents, who loved and urged to understand the evolution and values of nature itself. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, affectionate of nature traveled and researched in several continents and faced hardships to reach a deep awareness towards the importance of understanding nature and consequently developing a intense respect to nature.
Something that did strike me was the fact that he was once invited to visit Brasil in one scientific excursion by one Brazilian president and he accepted instantly. In my country, he researched and learned a lot about Brazilian species, and eventually he sailed a river named "RIO DA DU"VIDA"- the River of the Doubt", falling sick of Malaria.
Back in the USA, he said that would be one of the greatest experiences he ever had in his life and one huge step to measure the importance of tropical rain forest to humanity.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, has then become a great man not only in his country but also in my country history as well. He was and has been responsible for the growth of knowledge of all people that visit that building and also encourages persons to reflect on the real value of nature, life through knowledge and the discovery of new life existing all over this vast and mysterious world of ours.
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