Excerpt from The National Parks for All the People, And, Perhaps Our Greatest National Park (the Greater Sequoia): Two Addresses In considering any welfare work, a park must ever be considered. But a park, especially a national park, is something utterly separate from welfare work, because the national park belongs to the people themselves. In other words, it is a park of the people, for the people, and by the people. It won't be the same as erecting great libraries and that sort of thing for the benefit of the people. These parks are something that people are caring for for themselves. Why do we want them? I believe you will agree with me that it has become a public function to look after the recreation facilities of the public. There is no other way 111 which they are likely to be looked after in a correct manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.