If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should… — Lewis Pugh Copy Share Image
I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just… — Lewis Pugh Copy Share Image
In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed. — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to… — Enos Mills Copy Share Image
The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents… — George B. Hartzog Jr Copy Share Image
The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Pimlott foresaw a time when wolves would be reintroduced to national parks in both Canada and the United States, and people would… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“Industrial Tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
National Parks are a part of the American experience. They evoke memories of childhood vacations and pride in the beauty of our… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Do we allow unlimited visitation, or do we restrict numbers to protect a delicate ecosystem? Do we heavily advertise the park, enticing… — Mary E. Reed Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“In a world in which everything bears the indelible impress of Man, it is refreshing to escape from time to time from… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“As the author of Lost Wife, Saw Barracuda - True Stories from a Sharm el Sheikh Scuba Diving Instructor, I know a… — John Kean Copy Share Image
“As to the reserved and withdrawn areas, excluding and excepting only the national parks, it is manifest that justice, equality, and dignity… — Charles Edwin Winter Copy Share Image
“Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national… — Don Sherwood Copy Share Image
“We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage… — Mary E. Reed Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I was part of Environment Canada's work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
“Adirondack Park, a 6-million-acre wilderness area and parkland in the Adirondack Mountains, is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Olympic… — Lori Baird Copy Share Image
There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
National parks are cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
“The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Whatever the cost, however financed, the benefits for park visitors in health and happiness--virtues unknown to statisticians--would be immeasurable.” — Edward Abbey "Desert Solitaire Copy Share Image
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
