National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, abs…

Wallace Stegner
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2000). Angle of Repose, p.338, Penguin
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

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