Almonds Quote by Jean Giraudoux

“When a coal company gets a permit to strip-mine, it literally attacks the mountain with all manner of heavy equipment. First it clear-cuts the…

— John Grisham

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

— Michael Frome

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

No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime.…

— John Muir

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are…

— Enos Mills

A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.

— Michael Frome

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to…

— Bob Brown

At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization…

— Bill Bryson

“So why do these guys hate your guts?” “Because they believe strip-mining is a good thing. It provides jobs, and there are few jobs…

— John Grisham

“So why do these guys hate your guts?” “Because they believe strip-mining is a good thing. It provides jobs, and there are few jobs…

— John Grisham

Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.

— Roy Cooper

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

— Robert Smithson