One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

Bernard DeVoto
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The beauty of the natural world is something that all people have to be thankful for. With the many challenges facing our world, it’s not always possible to conserve the beauty of nature, yet we still have to be thankful for the beauty that we have.

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