#parks

We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them. ↗

— Don Sherwood

#cherished #country #enjoying #group #keep

I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude. ↗

— Susan Cain

#age

In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics. ↗

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

#design #parks #urban #architecture

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #lef-out #loneliness

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #nicholas-sparks #the-rescue #youth #life

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #love

Quick, think of a marvelous excuse he’ll totally swallow. Aha!“To practice. Unlike you guys, I haven’t tried my particular talent since Granny May signed me up for belly-dancing classes when I was fifteen.”And, by the way, why the hell did I consent to that? Or decide I loved it? Never mind, he’s buying it. In fact, he seems to be hot on the idea. Are his eyes glowing? And is Cole’s tongue hanging out? This is why I didn’t want to dance in the first place! “Anyway,” I rushed on. “I’m going to find a private place where nobody can see to laugh at me while you beat this tent”—or, more likely, these two idiots—“into submission. ↗

— Jennifer Rardin

#vampire #vayl #love

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #motion #sparks #love

There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#couples #intensity #love #passion #romance

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#parks #nature