Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.