The pressure to increase these kinds of uses in national parks is constantly increasing. Our park lands are becoming more and more like isolated islands, with the demands for their use from everybody.

...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece of wild country.

We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage cannot be measured on a scale...

[The marine park was established in 1979.] Many have marine parks, ... But Bonaire was the first island-wide marine park. When tourists came diving, they brought spear guns. We stopped allowing that. You either progress or regress -- there is no other way.

We put increasing pressure on ourselves.

We were thus able to compare parks in isolated areas, under practically no pressure, with Indian lands in areas disputed by loggers and agribusiness.