President’s Commission on Americans Outdoors

Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2493 – Aug 10, 2022

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We believe that the place to start … is in our communities. Americans living together and joining in associations across the country—this is where the tremendous strength and vision of our people will be tapped. We recommend a prairie fire of local action to sweep the nation, encouraging investment in outdoor recreation opportunities and rededication to the protection of our great natural heritage.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2480 – July 28, 2022

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A first-rate trails system can only be created by people.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1968 – March 3, 2021

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We have a vision for allowing every American easy access to the natural world: Greenways. Greenways are fingers of green that reach out from and around and through communities all across America, created by local action. They will connect parks and forests and scenic countrysides, public and private, in recreation corridors for hiking, jogging, wildlife movement, horse and bicycle riding.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1831 – Oct 17, 2020

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We can tie this country together with threads of green that everywhere grant us access to the natural world. Rivers and streams are the most obvious corridors, offering trails on the shores and boating at mid-channel. They could link open areas already existing as national and state parks, grasslands, forests, lakes, and reservoirs, the entire network winding through both rural and urban populations. Thousands of miles of abandoned rail lines should become hiking, biking, and bridle paths. Utility rights-of-way could share their open space not only with hikers and cyclists but also with wildlife. Citizens and landowners, both individual and corporate, can look for opportunities to establish and maintain greenways with the help of volunteer labor. Imagine every person in the U.S. being within easy walking distance of a greenway that could lead around the entire nation. It can be done if we act soon.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1294 – April 29, 2019

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We have a vision for delivering outdoor recreation opportunities close to home for all Americans: a network of Greenways, created by local action, linking private and public recreation areas in linear corridors of land and water. Greenways can bring access to the natural world to every American, and can eventually, if we act now with speed and with foresight, link our communities and our recreation areas together across the nation.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1257 – March 23, 2019

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Communities [should] establish Greenways, corridors of private and public recreation lands and waters, to provide people access to open spaces close to where they live, and to link together the rural and urban spaces in the American landscape.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1220 – Feb 14, 2019

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Greenways are a bold idea with the magic to stir people to action. Greenways themselves are not new. We want to encourage their spread across the American landscape, by focusing on their values to communities. A nationwide network could ultimately grow from local action in thousands of communities across America.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Report and Recommendations to the President of the United States, 1986

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1143 – Nov 29, 2018

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We can tie this country together with threads of green that everywhere grant us access to the natural world.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1123 – Nov 9, 2018

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An outdoor ethic means personal involvement in the outdoors as an essential part of life. It means a sense of appreciation for, and obligation toward the air, land, water and living things of the earth. It includes statesmanship: courtesy for others using the outdoors; and stewardship: our obligation to ensure future generations’ enjoyment of our natural heritage.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Report and Recommendations to the President of the United States, 1986

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1107 – Oct 24, 2018

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Imagine walking out your front door, getting on a bicycle, a horse … or simply donning your backpack and within minutes of your home, setting off along a continuous network of recreation corridors that could lead across the country.

—PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON AMERICANS OUTDOORS, Americans and the Outdoors, 1987

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