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“America’s Best Idea” – President Obama on National Parks | National Geographic


two of your predecessors felt very much
the same thing didn’t they Teddy
Roosevelt walked these very trails
through these redwood trees along with
John Muir the father of the American
conservation movement and these granite
mountains they lit a fire in it yeah
well the Teddy Roosevelt one of my
favorite presidents certainly the
president I envied most because back
then he would go to yellowstone or
yosemite with a guide maybe with one
Secret Service agent on horseback he’d
spend a month or or two just wandering
around in the middle of his presence
yeah so it’s a little harder for me to
move than it was I did but you know it’s
been said and it’s absolutely true that
this was maybe America’s best idea yeah
the idea that these spaces are sacred
they are for everyone not just for the
few and that you preserve them for
future generations and so for us to be
able to celebrate a hundred years of the
National Park Service and all those who
had the foresight to leave this behind
here it’s a great time
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