Development Quote by Aldo Leopold

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

— Aldo Leopold

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been…

— Paul Goodman

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

— Stan Brakhage

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

— Brigham Young

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

— Todd Gitlin

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems…

— Alistair Cooke

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break…

— Renee Ellmers

“The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward”

— Michael Chabon

If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills…

— John F. Kennedy