"It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, â€˜There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this timeâ€™; or, â€˜We should wait until present ones are improved.â€™"

-- Enos Mills

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“I'm not very ambitious at all.”
“But itâ€™s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.”
“Iâ€™d kill for you, Kylie Galen. But more than that, Iâ€™d die for you.â€ She felt a tear roll down her cheek. â€œYouâ€™d better not die on me, Lucas Parker.”
“To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.”
“Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.”

Source : Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). “Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom”, p.93, Chicago Review Press
“Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.”
“Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap”

Source : David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books
“I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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