Notes

  1. Adolph Murie, quoted in The National Parks, by Michael Frome - Rand McNally, c1981 p.6
  2. What a catchy sentence !...
  3. Great National Parks of the World, by Richard Carrington - Random House, NY 1967 p.14
  4. Ibid, p.12
  5. Ibid, p.12
  6. Frome, p.7
  7. Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect of Central Park in New York City, quoted by Frome
  8. William Wordsworth, quoted by Charles F. Little in Discover America : the Smithsonian book of the National Parks, Smithsonian Books p.16
  9. George Catlin, related by Barry Mackintosh, quoted by Little p.17
  10. Thomas Jefferson, quoted by Little p.16
  11. Little p. 20
  12. Congress’ Act of March 1, 1872, quoted almost everywhere (Little p.20, Tilden p.17,...)
  13. You really think I need a footnote here ?
  14. Protestantism, Capitalism and Nature, by Mark Stoll at http://www.stedwards.edu/bss/stoll/pcn_intr.htm
  15. Genesis 1.28, King James Bible
  16. Conrad L. Wirth, quoted by Carrington p.14
  17. Alfred Runte, quoted by Little p.16
  18. John Conness, senator of California, quoted by Little p.21
  19. Little, p.21
  20. Congressman Thomas Tongue, ibid
  21. Alfred Runte, quoted by Runthe, ibid
  22. Antiquities Act, June 8, 1906
  23. Barry Mackintosh, quoted by Little p.23
  24. General Authorities Act of 1970, found in [5]
  25. Amended Redwoods Act, ibid
  26. National Park Service Mission Goals, 1996, ibid
  27. Ibid.
  28. John Muir, quoted in The National Parks : what they mean to you and me, by Freeman Tilden, Knopf 1951, p.19
  29. Ibid
  30. Enos Mill, quoted by Frome p.6
  31. Frome, p.6
  32. Joseph Wood Krutch, quoted by Frome p.6
  33. Walt Whitman, from Song of the Open Road, quoted by Ansel Adams in These we inherit : the parklands of America, Sierra Club 1962, p.13
  34. Adams, p.14
  35. Ibid
  36. Carrington, p.14

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