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CameronPoe wrote:

ATG wrote:

Wallace Stegner, wrote that national parks were “the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.” America’s only other comparable idea, perhaps, was philanthropy—another great invention that was unknown to wealthy Europeans (reluctant alms-givers at best, and their only “parks” were private hunting estates, where the entry fee for commoners was, oh, death). Europe had the Quakers to protest slavery, and the suffragettes to demand the vote for women, but the United States led the way in every cause you can think of where rich people helped poor people, willingly and generously. The roots of the word philanthropy are “love” and “mankind,” and the concept also reflected a “morality of wealth,” as expressed by maybe the first and greatest of philanthropists, Andrew Carnegie: “To die rich is to die disgraced.”



I think back, and many of my best memories and sights have been in Americas National Parks.

whatiyathink?

Bit critical on the old Euros there ATG, you seem oblivious to the fact that European settlers had 10 million square kilometres of pristine land to exploit while Europe bore the heavy weight of overpopulation, lack of free land and thousands of years of incremental political development, constrained by aforementioned factors.

It was a slow news day and a cheap shot.

i've been watching Ken Burns series.

forgot to say i'm getting the blu-rays

Last edited by burnzz (2009-10-10 17:57:08)

When I was 11 my parents took me to Yellowstone.  I threw tantrums and gave bored expressions and rolled my eyes at my parents.  I didn't appreciate nature and took it for granted.

Starting in highschool, I would spend as much time outside, running, walking trails as much as I could.

When I went on vacation with my family, I always want to go to the available trails, and forests.

chattahoochee-oconee national forest 

Superior Mind wrote:

smuder201 wrote:

First public park in Great Britain was open in 1637 was formerly royal hunting park called Hyde Park. The first park in USA was 1864, so you stole our idea.

http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collec … blic-parks

There is a neighborhood/town in Queens/Long Island called New Hyde Park.

Stop thief.

I've faught a few fires in Glacier and Yellowstone National Park.. and as a kid my family would go to Yellowstone every year

burnzz wrote:

got these - some of the best TV is still free (even tho the blu-rays aren't) and PBS does a helluva job . . .

http://static.bf2s.com/files/user/21025 … 6001dt.jpg

Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me

Narupug wrote:

Is Necrobumping back in style?

Yep.

burnzz wrote:

how is it necroposting if it's relevant?

would you rather see a new thread for everything - ffs, it's a thread, and if it was out of place it'd be necroposting.

In this case it was actually relevant ...


@Everyone: ... however the necroposting bump game has been noticed and if continued the staff are considering a 3 day ban pr. incident ...

this Wednesday i'm going to see another of our National Parks - Zions, in southwest Utah.



We'll be staying outside the park itself. apparently they've done here like they have in Yosemite, which is restricting the auto traffic.

That whole area is pretty crazy. I went biking in Grand Staircase/Escalante National Park (big name for the middle of fuckin nowhere) and it was great. Camped on the side of a mountain, an hour from the nearest paved road, in the middle of summer haha.

burnzz wrote:

this Wednesday i'm going to see another of our National Parks - Zions, in southwest Utah.

http://clairesmallwood.files.wordpress. … l_park.jpg

We'll be staying outside the park itself. apparently they've done here like they have in Yosemite, which is restricting the auto traffic.

Southern Utah is awesome.

There are places I know where shards of indian pottery are so thick it is like a pavement made of it. Near Kodachrome you can run your fingers through the rock near the formations and it is challenging to come up with a handful of dirt that does not contain either petrified wood or dinosaur bone.

Colorado City, near the Arizona border is a surreal place to visit. The town graveyard is one of those that is littered with small shards of painted pottery. The pligs have mostly moved on to law trouble in Texas, and the town stands as a testament to the man smacking down people who just want to be left alone to their cousins and wives and religion.

Zion is awesome and while I want to spend more time there, it is Yosemitted out. I prefer more rural places like Bryce Canyon, where my mom grew up. In fact, the gateway to Kodachrome ( where kodak film took the name because the colors are so amazing ) is Cannonville. The visitors center in Cannonville has a awesome display on how the pioneers settled the town. My kin folk.