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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1791 – Sept 7, 2020

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The good news is that Americans will, in increasing numbers, begin to value and protect the vast American landscape. The bad news is that they may love it to death.

—CHARLES LITTLE, The Land Between in The American Land, 1979

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1625 – March 25, 2020

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…greenways come into being one footstep at a time through individual choice and collective action. And who is to say that such modest steps as these will not begin a historic journey with ethical possibilities unimaginable.

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1481 – Nov 2, 2019

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I have observed over the years that the primary conservation impulse—the effort to make one’s place livable, workable, and productive—is a kind of “back yard” impulse. That is, it relates to the land within one’s own ken—not land in the abstract.

—CHARLES LITTLE, The Land Between in The American Land, 1979

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #923- April 23, 2018

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To make a greenway … is to make a community. And that, above all else, is what the movement is all about.

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #882- March 13, 2018

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The ‘linkage of urban and rural spaces’: this is what makes the greenway idea so fresh and compelling.

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #879- March 10, 2018

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.…if you take a syllable from each of these terms—green from greenbelt and way from parkway, the general idea of greenway emerges: a natural, green way based on protected linear corridors which will improve environmental quality and provide for outdoor recreation.

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #839- Jan 29, 2018

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Greenway: 1. A linear open space established along either a natural corridor, such as a riverfront, stream valley, or ridgeline, or overland along a railroad right-of-way converted to recreational use, a canal, scenic road, or other route. 2. Any natural or landscaped course for pedestrian or bicycle passage. 3. An open-space connector linking parks, nature reserves, cultural features, or historic sites with each other and with populated areas. 4. Locally, certain strips or linear parks designated as parkway or greenbelt.

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #758- Nov 9, 2017

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….[The greenway story] is the story of a remarkable citizen-led movement to get us out of our cars and into the landscape—on paths and trails through corridors of green that can link city to country and people to nature….

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #685 – Aug 28, 2017

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At the same time it is important for people like me not to succumb to the Potomac Fallacy—that the proper federal program will put everything to rights. These is in fact an opposite view, equally convincing, which is that nothing would have gone wrong in the first place if it hadn’t been for federal programs.

—CHARLES LITTLE, The Land Between in The American Land, 1979

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #668 – Aug 11, 2017

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If the greenway movement can help us get back a bit of honest natural beauty and our heritage of historic place, we shall owe it much.

—CHARLES LITTLE, Greenways for America, 1990

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