“You have to be you!”
Source: Black Girl Magic: A Book About Loving Yourself Just the Way You Are
“Taint not the mind with a puny label. We are beautiful when we are indivisible.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Stagnated water breeds disease, when in motion it breathes life. Stagnated mind breeds segregation, when in motion it breaks divide.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the strange warmth and solidity of Mother Earth again? This is the problem which the Park Service should confront directly, not evasively, and which it cannot resolve by simply submitting and conforming to the automobile habit.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“There will never be a photograph of the Grand Canyon that can adequately describe its depth, breadth, and true beauty.”
Source: A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip
“Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.”
Source: Unravel Me
“It is safe to say that the Teton Range is as breathtaking as any mountain landscape one could ever see.”
Source: A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip
“The story is, a man came up to Yosemite and the ranger was sitting at the front gate and the man said, "I've only got one hour to see Yosemite. If you only had one hour to see Yosemite, what would you do?" And the ranger said, "Well, I'd go right over there, and I'd sit on that rock, and I'd cry." - Nevada Barr”
Source: The National Parks: America's Best Idea
“It is a spectacular illusion – a deeply three-dimensional scene flattened onto an earthly canvas.”
Source: A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip
“Starker was saying that to be a guardian, you must be a gardener.”
Source: Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks