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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• For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

  Bette Midler

  Beautiful, People, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  John Hench

  Cities, Lasts, Steps

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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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• 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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• I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

  Jackie French

  School, Kids, Garden

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

  Julia Roberts

  Feelings, Magic, Sides

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner and Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April, 2012.

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• I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

  Kid Rock

  Mom, Dad, Class

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• It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

  Diana Ross

  Central Park, Intention, Playgrounds

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• Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

  Mickey Rourke

  Years, Walks, Walks In The Park

  "Rourke: 'It's My Last Chance; I Just Wanted to Bring It'" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

  Curt Schilling

  Morning, Jobs, Games

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• In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

  Will Self

  Age, Hollywood, Amusement

  "Will Self considers the Coen brothers" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

  Rob Sheffield

  Twilight, Character, Mvp

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