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Quotes of the Day for 1 March 2005 - Parks

On this day in 1872, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law declaring that a tract of land lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River would forever be "dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people."

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility. This is a genuine religious feeling and has nothing to do with mysticism.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
     - David Rains Wallace

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
     - Johathan Edwards, 1703 - 1758

The wilderness is not just a desert through which we wandered for forty years. It is a way of being. A place that demands being open to the flow of life around you.
     - Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
     - John Muir, 1838 - 1914

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