09/12/1966
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"Great national parks and great national seashores located in faraway, distant places do not satisfy the needs of the people who are a part of our urban civilization."
"It is fitting to plan now for the twohundredth anniversary of these events."
"Will it be strewn with broken glass and rusting cans and commercialized beyond recognition, or will we leave a part of it as God created it and as man found it?"
"Unless we begin now to restore the environment in and around our cities, where more than 3 out of 4 people are going to be living in the year 2000, we will be condemning a large part of our population..."