Parks Quotes

• 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

  Effectiveness, National Parks, Administration

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.300, Cambria Press

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• The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

  Stewart Udall

  Country, Father, Opportunity

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• The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Delight, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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

  Stewart Udall

  National Parks, Today, Tradition

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• Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Morning, Cities, People

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• National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Intelligent, Generations, National Parks

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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

  Artist, National Parks, Nostalgia

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

  Walt Disney

  Family, Children, Fun

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• Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

  Michael Crichton

  Jurassic Park, Welcome

  Kristin Kiser, Michael Crichton, David Koepp (1993). “Jurassic Park: Raptor attack”, Price Stern Sloan

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• Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Mean, Air

  "Lady Bird Johnson’s Letters Affirm Passion for Nature" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

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• The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You'd hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Morning, Hate

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• I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

  Woody Harrelson

  People, Theatre, England

  "I'm an American tired of American lies" by Woody Harrelson, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2002.

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• When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Book, Garden, London

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Children, Fun

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• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Morning, Home, Hiking

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• So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

  Norm Dicks

  Summer, People, Important

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• I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

  Zach Wamp

  Strong, Believe, Tears

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• I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

  Hilary Swank

  Grew Up, Trailers, Trailer Park

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• In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the seep serene of the asters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance hear the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time. Wished for the moon, but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  Thomas Gray

  Distance, Sunset, Dark

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• But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

  Laura Miller

  Beautiful, Strong, Children

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• I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.

  Paula McLain

  Love, Hurt, People

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.112, Ballantine Books

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• I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

  Willie Mays

  Walking Away, Games, Trying

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Hood, Givenchy

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• So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

  Craig Johnston

  Years, Skills, Two

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• I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

  Herbie Mann

  Guitar, Play, Central Park

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