National Nature Reserve

Famous quotes containing the words national, nature and/or reserve:

“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)

“Her face had the seamed reserve of the old in this country [Japan]. It was a neighborhood poignantly rich in old ladies.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)