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“Survival is balance. Life’s ugliness is balanced by beauty. Trauma is balanced by awe. For me, being on the road has come to represent awe-seeking—what I find in the still-wild places is counterbalance to the traumas.”

Book:Drive Through the Night

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“At the heart of conventional conservation is the model of the American national park. The Indian environmentalist Madhav Gadgil writes of the influence of the top-down strategy modeled on Yosemite National Park, whose establishment in 1890 followed the forcible expulsion of the Native Americans who lived there. The history of "America's best idea" goes hand in hand with the history of white supremacy over nature and the Indigenous people of North America.”

American History National Parks Yosemite

Book:Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Source: Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

“Love doesn't always curl your toes sometimes it takes a bite right out of your soul.”

Love Relationships Loss

Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich

“These parks didn't just offer stunning vistas; they provided the backdrop for lessons in resilience, adaptability, and the profound joy of shared experience.”

Travel Hiking National Parks Love Stories Blended Families

Book:A National Park Love Story: A Journey to Visit All 63 U.S. National Parks

Source: A National Park Love Story: A Journey to Visit All 63 U.S. National Parks

“Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!”

National Parks Environmental Conservation Anti Car

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.”

National Parks Environmental Conservation Posession

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“In a world that is becoming increasingly virtual, the parks remain places of visceral beauty. Places where we can remember that we are but a small part of the life on this planet, and that it is a truly wonderful planet and the only one we've got.”

National Parks

Author:Nevada Barr

“Few things in this world evoke scrotum-shriveling fear in a man like a group of frowning women, enraged to the point of atypical silence, ambling toward him with an obvious agenda.”

Hiking Environmentalism National Parks Michael Gurnow State Parks Nature S Housekeeper

Book:Nature's Housekeeper

Source: Nature's Housekeeper

“This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.”

Nature Beauty Mindfulness Memory Landscape Canyons National Parks Grand Canyon Southwest Nature Writing

Book:Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

Source: Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

“Shenandoah National Park is lovely. It is possibly the most wonderful national park I have ever been in, and, considering the impossible and conflicting demands put on it, it is extremely well run. Almost at once it became my favorite part of the Appalachian Trail.”

National Parks Shenandoah

Book:A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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