Enos Mills quotes
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“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.”
-- Enos MillsSource : Enos A. Mills (2013). “Your National Parks With Detailed Information for Tourists”, p.151, Library of Alexandria
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“The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.”
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“The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.”
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“The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.”
-- Enos MillsSource : Enos Abijah Mills (1920). “The Adventures of a Nature Guide”
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“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.’”
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“The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive”
-- Enos MillsSource : Enos Abijah Mills (1920). “The Adventures of a Nature Guide”
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“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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