THE NATIONAL PARKS

AMERICA’S BEST IDEA

THE SCRIPTURE OF NATURE (1851-1890)

THURSDAY, JUNE 11 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

America’s national parks are a treasure house of nature’s superlatives – 84 million acres of the most stunning landscapes anyone has ever seen. They became the last refuge for magnificent species of animals that otherwise would have vanished forever; today, they remain a refuge for human beings seeking to replenish their spirit.

The national parks embody a radical idea, as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence, born in the United States nearly a century after its creation. It is a truly democratic idea, that the magnificent natural wonders of the land should be available not to a privileged few, but to everyone.

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