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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• 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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• 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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• Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

  James Fenton

  Book, Men, Musical

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• I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

  Carrie Fisher

  Rooms, Internet, Trailers

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  Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

  Ric Flair

  Reality, Hiking, Space

  Ric Flair (2010). “Ric Flair: To Be the Man”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

  Bobby Flay

  Space, Location, Partners

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• My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

  Al Franken

  Dad, School, Two

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

  Kinky Friedman

  Country, Hippie, Rights

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• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

  Jane Goodall

  Struggle, Years, People

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• I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Thinking, Government

  "Graham: 'I would never say this is God's judgment'". Interview with John King, www.cnn.com. October 04, 2005.

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• The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

  Lindsey Graham

  Umpires, Judging, Political

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• 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

  Matt Groening

  Family Guy, Swim, Cartoon

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview With Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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• I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Dog, Coffee, People

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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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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• Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.

  John Hodgman

  Islands, Civilization, Long

  "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Real, Kissing, Magic

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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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