quotes about National Parks
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I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.
-- Alexandra KerrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.
-- Benton MacKaye -
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
-- Donella Meadows -
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.
-- Donella Meadows -
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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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Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.
-- Helen Clark -
The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism -- which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there.
-- J. Horace McFarland -
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
-- Robert Smithson -
Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.
-- Stewart UdallSource : "IDEAS & TRENDS; A Rising American Impulse To Leave the Land Alone" by Philip Shabecoff, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 1989.
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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.
-- Theodore Roosevelt