Ken Burns

I agree completely.

I think, you know, Americans, you know, manifest destiny basically says.

See that river?

Let's damn it.

See that forest?

Let's calculate the board feet.

See that canyon?

What minerals can be extracted?

That's okay.

And we've done that with 98% of the continental United States.

But we also, in the midst of all of that, set aside these places that were so spectacularly beautiful.

like Yosemite or Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon or Zion or Bryce or Canyons or the Everglades or Acadia or Smokies, and just said, I want my children and my children's children's children to be able to see these.

That's why I said it's the declaration applied to the land.

No other countries.

We invented national parks.

Every other country has.

Every other country has followed suit because we were saying land does not belong to a monarch or to the nobleman or to the very rich.

And just reverse engineer that for a second and say, okay, we don't have national parks.

So Yosemite and Zion are gated communities.

You can't – you maybe have one little observational place along the Grand Canyon to look.