Calvin Coolidge has written quite a lot about the environment. For instance, when he called a group of Boy Scouts who were leaving for Europe (July 25, 1924), he noted that one of his fundamentals was “reverence for nature.” This is what he said, “Boys should never lose their love of the fields and streams, the mountains and the plains, the open places and the forests. That love will be a priceless possession as your years lengthen out. There is an instructive myth about the giant Antaeus. Whenever in a contest he was thrown down, he drew fresh strength from his mother, the earth, and so was thought invincible. But Hercules lifted him away from the earth and so destroyed him. There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.”