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
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
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
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 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 cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people… — Michael Frome 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
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There… — Norm Dicks 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
“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
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
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 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
“Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards? How did Europeans, ancestral cultures to most of us, whose average crowded country would… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving… — Jane Mayer 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
“The Obama Administration has been trying to indoctrinate the public with its climate ideology in many ways and through a variety of… — Alan Carlin 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
“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
It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there… — Enos Mills Copy Share Image
If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don't think that everyone should go there. I also… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this… — Veronika Varekova 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
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
“Once you can comfortably walk three or four miles without stopping, consider taking hiking trips—day or overnight—in county, state, or national parks.… — Edmund J. Bourne Copy Share Image
The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Survival is balance. Life’s ugliness is balanced by beauty. Trauma is balanced by awe. For me, being on the road has come… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project… — Stephen Colletti 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
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
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
