During a speech at a National Recreation and Park Association convention, Claude W. Ahrens gave credit for his understanding of the "Leave It Better Than You Found It" philosophy to his own father, John W. Ahrens... "he told us ten children that we didn't come on this earth accidentally, that we were part of a planned process, that our obligation in life was to leave the world a better place than we found it.  He made us conscious that we wanted to contribute."

Claude W. Ahrens, 1994

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