Some Friday parks love
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Ken Burns’ most recent documentary series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, will air on PBS in September. Burns on National Parks:
You’d be hard pressed to find something that was a purer expression of the democratic impulse, in setting aside land, not for the privileged, not for the kings and nobility, but for everybody. For all time.
(via TreeHugger)
