Adventure Quote by Karen R. Jones & John Wills

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at…

— George B. Hartzog Jr

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

“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

“Some folks require the park’s wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.”

— Lee H. Whittlesey

“A city is judged by the beauty of the children's parks.”

— Amit Ray

“To develop a national park is to not have one.”

— Lee H. Whittlesey

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

— Robert Smithson

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

National parks are cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people who enjoy…

— Michael Frome

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

— Douglas Tompkins

“Re: Central Park But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.”

— Rafael Yglesias