Best National Parks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

Source: The Yosemite

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.”

Values Natural Productions Administration Parks Consideration Assets Establishment Citizenship Justified Effectiveness Recreation National Parks Good Citizen Good Citizenship Outdoor Life

Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

“It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’”

Should Made Stills Important Country States Feelings Waiting Powerful Numbers Effort Areas Congress Parks Opposition Insidious National Parks Scenic Wild Places

Author:Enos Mills

“Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.”

Thinking Dream Hope Rooms Plans Planning Glorious Parks Finding Yourself Resolve Founders National Parks

Book:Your National Parks With Detailed Information for Tourists

Source: Your National Parks With Detailed Information for Tourists

“It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.”

Mind Earth Faces Left Wish White Seeing Species Males Parks National Parks

Author:Alan Bennett

“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

“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 a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'”

Way Firsts Littles Ideas Wanted Three Sports Special Tvs Lips Islands Parks Expensive Olympics Freeze Alaska Skates Canyons National Parks Glaciers Grand Canyon

Author:Brian Boitano

“we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.”

“The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.”

People Ideas Country Process Fundamentals National Parks Enrichment

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.”

People Giving Two Song Nations Social Connections Safety Sells Busy Congress Holes Forests Impulse Preserves Parks Wilderness Trash Kicking National Parks Safety Net

Book:Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild

Source: Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild

“It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.”

People Way Want Firsts Humor Beautiful Political Events Policy Garden Rose Spots Parks Appropriate Political Humor National Parks Many Friends Rose Garden

Author:George W. Bush

“I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.”

Involved Garden Parks Fascinated Gateways National Parks

Author:Alexandra Kerry

“Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.”

Needs Humans Left Rooms Function Species Parks Expenses Genes Left Alone Zoos Rangers Biodiversity National Parks Zookeepers

Author:Donella Meadows

“The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed.”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.”

Land Conditions Duty Huge Complexes Environmental Preserves Islands Parks Native Sustainability Interaction Continuity National Parks Continuity Of Life

Author:William Kittredge

“This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.”