If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea Americ…

Wallace Stegner
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If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea. ✨ Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West, Random House Value Pub
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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.
What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or … ▶

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea. ✨ Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West, Random House Value Pub

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