“He was not an American. And he encountered Yosemite and he imagined what America could be.  And for a century, we’ve fought about whether we liked his vision or not.   MAN: I like what he said on one occasion where he essentially said, “the enemies of wildness are invincible, and they are everywhere, but the fight must go on and for every acre that you gain, you gain, 10,000 trees and flowers and all the other forest people and the usual unborn generations will rise up and call you blessed.”

From Ken Burn’s The last Refuse – Part of the Series: Ken Burns: The National Parks

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