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PARKS
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Men
need to know the elemental challenges that sea and
mountains present. They need to know what it is to
be alive and to survive when great storms come. They
need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and
canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable
storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the
sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak
or a ridge that they can reach under their own power
alone.
-- Justice
William O. Douglas
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The
interminable forests should become graceful parks, for
use and delight.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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Growth
and development of national park and reserve programs
throughout the world are important to the welfare
of the people of every nation. We must have places
where we can find release from the tensions of an
increasingly industrialized civilization, where we
can have personal contact with the natural environment
which sustains us. To this end, permanent preservation
of the outstanding scenic and scientific assets of
every country, and of the magnificent and varied wildlife
which can be so easily endangered by human activity,
is imperative. 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 national 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
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Thousands
of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are
beginning to find out that going to the mountain is
going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain
parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains
of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains
of life. ~ John
Muir
Everybody
needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and
pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give
strength to body and soul alike.
~ John
Muir
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There
is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery
and wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind
the parks is native. The parks stand as the outward
symbol of this great human principle.
~ Franklin
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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
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Why
should not we...have our national preserves...in which
the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter
race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the
face of the earth"...for inspiration and our true
re-creation? Or should we, like villians, grub them
all up for poaching on our own national domains?
-- Henry
David Thoreau
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The
National Park Service today exemplifies one of the
highest traditions of public service.
~ Stewart
Udall
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
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