There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
“How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Is there any nation on earth that has more natural attractions, from the scenic coastal towns of Maine to the volcanic islands… — Stephen Moore 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
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
I particularly like the bookshops at National Parks and battlefields; they often have very unusual and helpful things. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“The Republican Roosevelt wanted to fight plutocrats as well as anarchists. Their plunder of oil, coal, minerals, and timber on federal lands… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same… — Bill Kurtis 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
“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
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly,… — Donella Meadows 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
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
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
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
“Just off the roaring, high-velocity motorways and the congested main roads, there is still a leisurely, low-decibel, cyclists' England. Here, quite apart… — Frederick Alderson Copy Share Image
