“At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.”
― Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
― Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
“God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.”
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