National Parks Quotes

National Parks Quote of the day

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

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.

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

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.

...Skyscraper National Park

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

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

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.-Laurance S. Rockefeller