My father's a fanatic for national parks, and every childhood trip was pretty much to national parks. — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
America's beauty is defined by iconic National Parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
“The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We have breathtaking state and national parks, flourishing adventure tourism and culinary scenes and the world's best horses. And of course bourbon. — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
The hardworking people of Tennessee believe strongly in maintaining a robust military, taking care of our veterans and investing in our infrastructure… — Bill Hagerty 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
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
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
I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and… — Mo Udall 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
We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying… — David Jeremiah Barron Copy Share Image
“For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
“To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I spent my summers at my grandparents’ cabin in Estes Park, literally next door to Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was always a slight upswing in February, the town's coldest month, when out-of-towners liked to hike into the national park to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the world’s total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels have terrific names, like purple… — Bill Bryson 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
