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Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the society around them, but that only makes it more important to protect them and keep them whole and pure.

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

National parks are cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people who enjoy them the most.

There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Gardening is not a rational act.

The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them.