National park Quote by Lee H. Whittlesey Download Open image ““To develop a national park is to not have one.”” — Lee H. Whittlesey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare National park
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Some folks require the park’s wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.” — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What people ought to do is find out what a national park is to begin with. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea… — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
I encourage everybody to hop on Google and type in 'national park' in whatever state they live in and see the beauty that lies… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
“Without hesitating, he said, “Can you tell me something? These animals that are just running around out here . . . they couldn’t be… — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
“Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks. —William… — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
“On many occasions animals are not so much trying to hurt us as giving us a mere rebuke or warning. The trouble is, a… — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
“People who live in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho are used to cold temperatures, but even those of us who live here can become complacent.… — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
“Some folks require the park’s wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.” — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
“Correct in his later assessment of war in general, Sherman was decidedly incorrect in this statement. The Nez Perce had both just cause and… — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
“Frank Welch was literally sleeping on a slab of bacon at the time of the event.” — Lee H. Whittlesey Copy Share Image
As someone who grew up in a logging and rail town and hiking in Glacier National Park, I am honored and humbled to be… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
“Number of SWAT teams in the FBI alone in 2013: 56 Unlikely federal agencies that have used SWAT teams: US Fish and Wildlife… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — In an otherworldly grove of cinnamon-colored” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
