National Parks Quotes
39 National Parks quotes by 34 unique authors
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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.…
— Bill Bryson
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
— Wallace Stegner
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If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,
— Wallace Stegner
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
— Wallace Stegner
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Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
— Stewart Udall
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He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall…
— Dave Cook
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Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real…
— Paul D. Boyer
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
— Donella Meadows
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The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working…
— J. Horace McFarland
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In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
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Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks…
— Matthew Lesko
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Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
— Fred W. Friendly
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The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its…
— Unknown Author
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National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample…
— John F. Kennedy
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So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going…
— Norm Dicks
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I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail…
— Zach Wamp
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the…
— Edmund Hillary
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The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
— Stewart Udall
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
— Dan Aykroyd
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I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road…
— Emanuel Cleaver
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Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide,…
— Helen Clark
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The national park is the best idea America ever had.
— James Bryce
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I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world,…
— Jane Goodall
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The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake…
— Carl Hiaasen
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body…
— John Muir
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