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
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
America's beauty is defined by iconic National Parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it… — Robert Adams 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
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Throughout the heart of the Rockies, tourism and recreation have either replaced resource extraction industries as the major sources of revenue and… — Douglas Chadwick 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
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
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled… — Michael Frome 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
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the… — Helen Clark 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
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
The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the… — Carl Hiaasen 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
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
“Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal... Daily new, always strange, ever full of… — Susan Rugh Copy Share Image
“This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
“This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause… — S. J. Kincaid 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
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
