“It is a spectacular illusion – a deeply three-dimensional scene flattened onto an earthly canvas.” — Stefanie Payne Copy Share Image
The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
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 Parks are overlooked and underrated, and they shouldn't be. — Hallie Jackson Copy Share Image
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
America's beauty is defined by iconic National Parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. — Ruben Gallego 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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and… — Whitney Tilson 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
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
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
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
“Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight… — Edward Abbey 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Those who nod sagely and quote the tragedy of the commons in relation to environmental problems from pollution of the atmosphere to… — Charles Clover 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
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
Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. — Dan Aykroyd 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
