Everyday Quote by Frank Luntz

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

— James Bryce

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

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that…

— Wallace Stegner

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless…

— Richard M. Nixon

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found…

— Edward Abbey

National Parks are a part of the American experience. They evoke memories of childhood vacations and pride in the beauty of our national landscapes.…

— Will Hurd

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

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which…

— Ronald Reagan

“[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as…

— Bill Bryson

Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the…

— Michael Frome

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of…

— George Aiken