I congratulate all of you today on taking advantage of the tremendous educational opportunities you've been offered.
These wilderness areas will remain just as they are, places of beauty and serenity for hikers, campers, and fishermen.
This is a great day for each one of you.
Now, get back to the Oval Office and go to work.
Each of these areas is intended to be completely natural—no housing developments, no powerlines, just forest, rock, wind...
No task facing us is more important than preserving the American land.
Too much government has always meant the oppression of the human spirit and the stultification of human progress.
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act.
We've given our support to legislation that would create some 5 million acres of new wilderness areas.
God has blessed the American people with a vast and beautiful land.
Our 5-year effort is the largest commitment to the renovation of our national parks that has ever been made.